If you work from home now, do you feel more or less busy than you were at the office? Also, rumor has it there will be big cuts at end of Q3. No sure who is targeted.
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Can’t say essential employees have had it any easier. There were many layoffs in the plants, labs, operations.
If you’re working from home, just make sure you’re online during the work hours and become available as soon as someone needs you.
Hope for the best
Don’t worry too much about it unless you feel your work can easily be absorbed by 2 other people. I say the biggest issue is being a high earner simply because of seniority and not bringing the company a good return on the investment.
Manager managed a team back in the day. They developed employees to become future leaders. Later colleagues moved up to manager level, but not without giving up theIr previous roles, and absorbing our former manager’s responsibilities. Add in a sprinkle of director responsibilities (since they don’t know what the hell to do, or how to lead), a sprinkle Of health and safety, and a dash of quality/supply chain/procurement/and other fellow colleague responsibilities since removed from their roles (laid off), and you have the solid Baker Employee that HR thinks twice about letting go. Too valuable.
Until you earn too much. Then your job is parted out to the remaining crew and the cycle continues. If you moved on to a new role, earning more, and doing less or managing less people - be very worried.
A lot of people at BH/GE/Whatever were already working from home before Covid-19. Since nobody at BH/GE/Whatever ever did much work anyway, there’s no real difference.