In order to have people off payroll before the beginning of Q2 (the common tactic), the announcements would come within the couple weeks.
The RFI process:
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Make an announcement that a group is impacted on a group call.
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Upper leadership spends 2 weeks or so grading people's value on a 1-5 scale, most (if not all) of which is based on how they feel about that person. (very biased most times)
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The impacted employees are made aware on individual calls.
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The impacted employees have 60 days before they are off payroll.
Since the whole process takes little over 75 days, they would need to make the group announcement about 3 months prior to when they want people off payroll (which would likely be the last few weeks of March).
Posted by @WzdUm59-2ies.