I work in a growth area within netops (lets just say u v e r s e, to stay anonymous I cant be more specific), last year we brought on multiple managers as the business was and still is growing. At the beginning of 2015 we were froze out of backfilling our almost 10 open positions for bargained employees. We were recently on the reorg call stating our work group was affected on the management side. They say managers have to have 15 to 1 employee count for span of control. Just last year they hired TWO new managers (one off the street). We are likely going to lose 2 or 3 managers from our team as thats the only way we will hit the span of control numbers. I largely trust my AM and he hasnt been told anything at all (they didnt even tell him about the phone call notifying his managers of the surplus).
What was worse, there were two individuals on our "call" that had just been promoted to managers a month prior from another team. Where is the logic and transparency? Everyone has faith the company will find them another position but this is grossly unlikely any layoff I have seen in my ten years with the company. Anything affecting groups prior have been individual teams and not company wide. Not to mention they told us a month before they were officially going to announce who is selected. What good does that do other than make individual worry and cause undo stress. This is the first time in a long while I have ever considered jumping ship simply because I helped build my team from nothing.