People are beyond demoralized. How do you motivate anyone when there are no rewards, the workload is crushing after repeated layoffs, and there's no mission or company success to believe in? If leadership actually has long-term plans, and that's a big if, they need to wake up to the state of the workforce. Lip service isn't going to cut it.
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@as it’s incompetence. I left and experienced my new company (similar size) complete a reorg in 3 weeks. 6 months later it’s a thing of the past nobody mentions.
At Nike everyone is perpetually either dealing with the fallout of the previous reorg or in the midst of a new reorg. It’s not possible to execute in that environment. Instead you just try to support the broken half baked legacy process or function you always have, cause that’s what you know.
Meanwhile LT make motivational posts on LinkedIn and loot what’s left of the company.
@as It’s absolutely intentional
You don’t need a Harvard MBA to see that we are now getting hit with the long term consequences of continuous layoffs. Short term, we gave Wall Street what they wanted to see to get that little stock bump. Now, we are seeing the actual impacts of performance, productivity, innovation and morale. Pretty sure that AI would tell you the same but yet, here we are.
@ab The layoffs will continue until moral improves.
It's all just a huge mess. They announced too early before pulling the trigger. Either this was a fumble or they're deliberately trying to drive people away to avoid paying severance costs, I see a new high pay person voluntarily leave every week. Even in ITC, there are people running away.
@a8 so they'll be another one next year?
@a2 the 2024 layoffs everyone was saying the same thing "this seems different". This is just the new norm
@OP What’s most concerning is how quickly the culture is deteriorating due to anxiety and uncertainty of layoffs. To note, I am noticing this across the entire industry. There’s a growing sense of division, with people turning against each other, increased public blame, and a noticeable “mean girls/mean boys” dynamic. Nepotism and favoritism seem to be at an all-time high, and there’s a real fear of retaliation when concerns are raised. Overall, the industry environment is heading in a very unhealthy direction.
I think the entire GT department is on edge
that seems different than past layoffs ...maybe it won't be that big but the anxiety before hand is bigger
and it's causing most work to just stop
none of this is good for business