I was extremely lucky, a few years ago. My former employer began shipping 80% of the graphics work my coworkers and I were doing to there, right after I was offered a job I’d waited years for. So, unfortunately, the attrition began among my friends & former coworkers, just after I left. There was a small comfort: the idiom of english there is evidently still British, as opposed to American. My former employer seems to have a fair amount of trouble getting that side of the artwork to come out correctly. But as I said, small comfort.
I hope that whatever your particular talents are, your landing is a soft one, and sooner, not later.
As for Adobe, you’d think that a company with the literal industry standards for drawing and image editing would tighten belts, and return their focus to core competencies, but I guess not. What a shame.
People are scrambling but getting placed is tight. Many with 75,000 a year jobs may be to 1000 a month in no time. We have inside contacts with many large corporations but times are very bad.
They don’t want to be outflanked online.
Something else takes out flash and that is a huge blow to them.
Sure their creative suite will still be the gold standard but it is a smart move to expand to online/cloud media space because that is the way everything else is going.
On the other hand why you need to lay off hundreds of people while you are still very very profitable makes a little less sense.