The people making the big decisions need to answer for where this company is headed. Employees shouldn't have to keep dealing with the fallout while leadership carries on untouched.
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I’m so checked out at this point. Leadership is completely out of touch, and the damage to employee morale and trust runs deep. For a company that spent years being reactive instead of proactive, this is the consequence. This is what a “fake it till you make it” leadership culture gets you. My entire team is burned out from constantly managing the chaos created above them, while employees are left paying the price for years of poor decisions.
Part of me wonders if RTO and restructuring are really about resetting the workforce and bringing back the pre-COVID corporate culture. But you can’t badge-swipe your way back to employee engagement or rebuild trust with the same leadership that destroyed it. Frankly, it may take an entirely new crew to undo the damage.
And having worked in cutthroat corporate environments before, I’ve seen how this plays out. Leadership gets tasked with cutting good, hardworking people, thinking they’re securing their own seats at the table. Then, once the dirty work is done, they’re shown the door too. Nobody should confuse being asked to make the cuts with being safe from them.
Maybe next time, try being proactive instead of making employees pay for leadership’s failures.
Sincerely,
Just another number on a spreadsheet (25 years of service and counting)
@OP there is a saying, victors write history. I suspect the same is true about any discussions regarding layoffs - I haven't received any meeting invites from McKinsey, if you haven't either, I would assume our reality will be whatever those that did get an invite said.