Keeping employees in layoff limbo for months isn't incompetence. It's strategy!!!!
You announce "restructuring" but drag out the actual cuts for weeks or months. What happens… people get paranoid, productivity drops, and the best performers start jumping ship on their own. Bo-m and you just got your headcount reduction without paying severance to half the people who left.
Meanwhile the survivors are faily grateful to still have jobs that they'll work twice as hard for the same pay. A mega Stockholm syndrome with a corporate twist…
Now, "performance-based" layoffs, the term itself is disgusting... When they're cutting 20% of the workforce, you think they're really evaluating individual performance… They're looking at salary costs and how close you are to retirement. That 10x developer making $180k? Gone. The 0.5x one making $95k? Safe.
The whole system is designed to make us think we have control… work harder, be more valuable, stay late, kiss a-s. But when the spreadsheet needs to balance, none of that matters…While we're all stressed about job security, executive bonuses are tied to these same cost-cutting measures they get rewarded for making our lives he-l.
The only winning move is to always be looking for your next opportunity, because loyalty is a one-way street that ends in a parking lot with a cardboard box.
The house always wins. Don't be the house's chips…