Responding to @3Qgyn+16zEvLP3
Dear EM Manager, yes you are right that the “door is always open”. Have you ever thought of those who had worked for 30+ years and more and under the “assurance” understanding that the Company had been telling us that EM is a place for long-term career and they value good people. How do you expect such folks to “walk out” and start all over again?. Now all of a sudden, there is a huge lay-off exercise and this is made worst without the industry practice of retrenchment payouts to tie them for a while as they seek employment elsewhere or help them financially in the short term. The folks laid off are not poor performers and they are forced to leave under the PIP/NSI disguise. How can this be that EM boasts of hiring the best in the market and there are suddenly so many poor performers. What has gone wrong here, please enlighten us?
For the “open-door” policy, as EM want to adopt, then the Company need to be honest and make it clear during recruitment that the they will lay-off the bottom x% every now and then when business is bad and without compensation. Then you see what type employees will you get.
When one works for a company, there should be job security as long as he/she performs and has been told during the yearly assessment. No one seek employment for a Company like what EM is now, notoriously known for. I will not even dare to recommend any young and good guys to join EM now, which I would have strongly recommend in the past. It’s a very sad recent development that has changed my working experience in EM for over 35+ years, where i truly believed EM and proud to work for then.
The frustration we all feel is to ‘f–e-warm’ the younger folks not to rely on EM for long term employment and move on to more secure jobs after having been trained by EM, which the industry will welcome the “best” with open arms.