Can we stop number crunchers from being the ones who decide who gets laid off? I know it's not personal and it's all about numbers, but we're already feeling the loss of some essential folks from our team who should have never been let go in the first place. Our manager is pi---d off they're gone. Why isn't he the one to decide? He knows us better than anybody and what our contributions are. There are people in our team who can be let go without us even noticing. Somehow, they are still here. That's wrong on so many levels.
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It’s the endless round of Management Consultants that the board bring in, the BCGs, Mckinseys etc. They are all the same one trick ponies when it comes to workforce strategies… cut, cut, cut
Wrong people are making important decisions in more aspects of our lives than I care to write about.
It IS personal and your manager does have the greatest impact.
what make you think your manager isn't the one who decided. If words from the top that the team has to laid off people, your manager is the one who will give HR the list or at least manipulate the metrics to make it easier for HR to choose who to laid off. Long story short, the manager decides who gets laid off.
I refer to it as the scourge of the MBAs. They discourage innovation because it's too risky. Then they cut a good org to the bone so it's a shadow of what made them great in the first place.
Or how about, you know, we get an ELT that can actually do their jobs, then this issue wouldn’t even come up.
That's not how it works.
The real question is how much longer you will stay at a company that couldn't care any less about the quality of their employees. There's no chance for business growth, or even retaining customers, in a competitive industry.