Anyone know of anyone to be laid off then subsequently rehired a year or two later?
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Would you really want to work for a company who just laid you off? They will do it again. If you get a chance to go back, do it as contract and work your connections to land more contract gigs. Don't let them control you if you have a unique skill that they want and only you can provide it.
Yes, I’ve seen it happen.
I recall another situation where a person was laid off in 2015 but she was hired back on 5 months later because the other person in her department decided to part ways from MRO. But she left 5 months prior April 2020 lay-off to work for another company.
So yes there have been circumstances where an individual did not have to wait for a year to return.
Yep, contract workers are cheaper.... but a sustainable model, good luck
I know of this occurring before, a person was laid off in the 2015 lay-off then then they were rehired (unknown timeframe between) but only to be laid off again on this last round in April.
Sorry to be negative, but this won’t happen (with the possible exception of hard to staff field offices like dickinson). The current view of the company execs is that they want more people from outside the company. If a future rebound in activity results in increased hiring they will go outside the company. The VP of HR describes her staffing model as “Build, Buy, Borrow and Bounce”, with the terms defined as follows:
Build - hiring early career people and training/developing them.
Buy - hiring fully mature employees from outside the company “ready to hit the ground running”.
Borrow - short term hiring, consultants or temp agencies.
Bounce - forcing employee exits from the company.
The current executive philosophy favors the bounce and buy model. The execs want to “bounce” older employees, pre-Tillman employees, etc. so that they can “buy” replacement employees stamped in their own mold.
So, with few and very rare exceptions, once you are “bounced” you won’t be returning.