This might be a stupid question, but I'm wondering if anybody was given a reason why they were selected to be laid off? If they don't offer the reason on their own, did anybody ask and get an answer? If I was affected, which didn't happen yet but something tells me I'm still not out of the woods, I'd want to know.
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This is just my opinion from what I've seen from layoffs at a few places I've worked. For the record, I was laid off from one of them. One place, over 11 years, had 7 rounds of layoffs.
So many times, I was left questioning, "You got rid of who?" or "You kept who?"
I think that while trying to target low performers, there's the legal need to make the whole layoff look non-prejudicial.
I've accepted that I'll never understand the oddball equation around it.
Manual QA was hit hard
@eje+1kZrQPZn - congrats on the being the most unpopular person here by demonstrating your overabundance of empathy.
While, yes, low performers do often get included - I've often seen TERRIBLE people not get hit while actually really good people get cut. Your sweeping generalizations aren't helpful and, if that's how you act at work, you'll be the first person I hope gets swept in this maelstrom.
Have a nice day.
They always look for duplicate management and unnecessary management positions first from my experience. Any over hiring they did during the pandemic will probably be corrected too. Sadly this could have been avoided by not going crazy and thinking the Corona bo-m would be long term. I'm sure plenty of people on top got rich off of it and have since bought more stock when it hit its low point.
"My colleague, who just went on maternity leave, got laid off. I have yet to find any valid reason outside of them wanting to outsource our roles to cheaper labor outside the states."
This is scary. Is her entire team laid off?
first they’ll target low performers then some challenging employees that speak up with a bit of randomness looking at grades, outsourcing options etc. All of it as this failing, ageing, leadership lives (or pretends to live) under the false illusion that by squeezing already low motivated workforce they’ll climb up the stock market again. Until Elliott catches up and forces them out to get their return via a sell off/acquisition
They gave us no reason at all. They didn’t even allow us the opportunity to ask questions in the meeting. They had our cameras and microphones disabled so we couldn’t.
My colleague, who just went on maternity leave, got laid off. I have yet to find any valid reason outside of them wanting to outsource our roles to cheaper labor outside the states.
It's usually because you are rubbish compared to your peers. Having selected people everyone got scored and the low performers naturally get kicked. Why get rid of your high performers?
When the May 2022 layoffs occurred, entire departments were laid off (agent + their manager + their manager’s manager) yet that job was posted as open/hiring overseas.
I have been through couple of layoffs — I have never really gotten an answer on why I was selected from the company itself and they would never truly let you know that as it can open a legal can of worms - — but, one can do self-reflection and can usually identify factors that possibly contributed to you being on the list. It usually comes down to performance sometimes, not knowing the right people, not having enough visibility even if you were doing a stellar job, not being in good books with key people beyond your team, working on initiatives that are not strategic to the organization, if you are part of a cost center rather than being a revenue driver
Because they are sneaky about the entire process.
They made a statement to the company. They won't give the option for a meeting or to confront them and ask questions about it. I would love to know if my department is affected by it but instead they rather play with our feelings for a few weeks. Fantastic corporate America.