A lot of employees are willing to leave if they offer early retirement but here we sit
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@ap Control. It's always just about control.
You offer voluntary separations and employees will have less incentive to put up with abusive business practices.
You cut the "worst" (not always how it shakes out), the "best" leave for something better, and you can hire cheaper and more gullible people. Then the new employees can "innovate" because they don't actually understand how to do anything. And the hole gets deeper.
I've survived many rounds of layoffs over the years and I never understand why they don't offer a voluntary separation program. They offer a generous severance, and there are people (like me) who would gladly offer to leave and at the same time open a space for someone who really wants/needs to stay
@a1 smells like incompetent nepo baby
@OP they have done voluntary early retirement in the past. I know more than one person who let it be known to their management that they were ready to retire, and then mgmt came back several months later and said “ok, let’s make it happen now.”
But this is a new era. It seems like McKinsey and Co are now running the show, and I think the RIF decisions are being made several pay-grades above most of us here, and our management is largely being left out of the process.
In theory they want to be able to lay off the worst people while keeping the best. But then they do things like this RTO change, which pushes their best people out. Basically leadership is just really bad at their job.