I'm just scratching my head here. What I observed in the Tower was: 1) older people close to retirement being retained over competent professionals doing the same job just as well and with 10-20 years remaining to add value to the company; 2) The handful of people who know were let go were all 1s and 2s last year and not yet rated this year (stand out achievement cards not to be filled out until the 30th) but who certainly were not going to be 3s or 4s; 3) Those of us left remaining scratching their heads wondering what brilliant people made the decision to let some highly competent people go over complete idiots who are a waste of space. Anyway, no one consulted me or the people I work with, as we lost two of the best people I have EVER worked with over two with shitty attitudes who add little - or no - value. Congratulations HR - you really screwed up.
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The younger employee can find a new job much easier than an older one. In the event you did not notice, offering an "incentive" package to anyone with ten years and over 55 shows clear bias against older, not younger folks. Look at procurement, or whatever it is called this month, as I don't think they have anyone in the whole department left who is over 55 anymore. Ditto F & A.
Duplication was a large part of it. I do know that in one case where there was duplication of skills, an employee close to retirement age but with less than 10 years was offered the package to save the position of someone who would have had longevity with the company, but the employee declined the package. So an empty nester - with a spouse who is already retired with full benefits - elected to stay with the result that the an employee with a young child was laid off.
It would do you best to remember HR job is to protect marathon not the invidiauals.
Choices seem to be driven by amount of duplication of roles and also the relation of a role or activity to conventional versus shale. Duplication is being squeezed out completely. If a role or activity is viewed as primarily conventional it goes out the door first.
HR's role over the last 10 yrs has changed dramatically. They went from being a helpful, caring group that cared about the employees to toal pieces of s**t. Their main goal is seeing how they can screw employees financially. This was very evident in the Feb layoff. Just as we are seeing now, good people let go while many incompetent people retained.
why repost?