I wonder how reorganization, if any, will compensate for layoffs. I am not looking forward to taking on the workload for two or three. What do you expect, guys? My experience with previous layoffs was always more work for those who remain, and not much of a smart reorganizing.
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“Your workload is exactly the same now as before the layoff. That’s it that’s all … stop playing into this stupid idea that CEO and other manager types have socialized this idea of always compensating”
Agree with this in previous comment, although it’s not necessarily CEO, it’s the manager, Director, VP, that aren’t creative enough and/or good enough leaders to see what needs to change and managers that won’t push back to their Directors and Directors/VPs that won’t listen to their people. I believe we have some good leadership within this company, and we have some poor leadership in this company. The poor leadership needs to be driven out to drive cultural shifts.
Individual contributions need to set boundaries and not enable poor systems and poor organizational structure. Decide what you’re willing to work, whether it be 40, 45, 50 hrs, whatever you feel is the right boundary for you and your job type, and do your job to the best of your ability within that. Try to identify the activities that take time in your day that are not value add and provide solutions to your manage to eliminate. If we enable poor systems, they will continue.
And what happens if you say no?
Management teams need to k ow consequences. Employees pay the ultimate consequence by losing jobs.
If they made a decision to eliminate positions, then the company also made the decision that the work said employee was doing was also obsolete or unnecessary.
Get some spines. You owe the company nothing. Employment experts have been saying this for years - big corporations are not worth going the extra mile for.
Your workload is exactly the same now as before the layoff. That’s it that’s all … stop playing into this stupid idea that CEO and other manager types have socialized this idea of always compensating
Nope - that s—t died 20 years ago
The problem is not just the workload. After the layoff, some people are assigned to different positions that they are not interested in. Some people will just look for new jobs and leave.
I remember our people leader said something along the lines of “you’re lucky you have a job” so it’s ok to dump you more work.
Workload will increase. There is doubt about that. That’s not the problem though. The issue is moral and motivation to take on additional work load may be hard to muster.
Any additional work is ok by me compared to the alternative.
I do remember previous layoffs made our workload much heavier, but for once, my team was not affected this time. Now with some project delays, my workload is lighter, which gives a bit more time to learn.