I wonder who decides who stays and who leaves... Do the managers receive a list of names or do the managers do the list?
Seniors and people with the higher salaries are always the first to go?
I work in ops in Belgium, I have a very small salary, wouldn't make sense to fire me in particular EXCEPT if the managers decide who to fire...
Your feedback would help, thanks !
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Leadership gets together on Wednesdays and Thursdays on the odd day of the week. They randomly assign numbers to each employee. Unless you are in LATM, then they draw straws. If you are number 7, you are automatically out. If you are are 3 and 5 and layoff day is on Thursday, you are out. Everyone else has a 34.7% chance of staying if the layoff day is Tuesday. All other computations are imputated to a rational number and applied without haste.
I hope this helps. It really helped me.
Senior leadership is deciding based on criteria they won’t share with lower managers who are forced to do the firings. This isn’t a rumor or speculation it’s exactly how it’s happening. Lower rung managers are given lists with no reasoning, and no ability to push back. At least that’s how it happened in my department. We don’t know why good performers are being cut or how they’re making the decisions.