We shouldn't be quick to blame our managers for not giving us a heads-up about who is being cut or at least telling what the numbers are for a certain team. The higher levels of management are keeping them in the dark the same way they are keeping us. They literary find out minutes before we do. Even more, think that this is hard on them, having to let go, somebody, they trust from their team, knowing that the workload is gonna go up for the ones that get to stay. It also must be very when a higher tier of management don’t listen to the inputs you give them. All and on, the managers are in the same dark and more or less in the same position as we are, so don't be quick to judge.
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Managers were and were not engaged by leadership. My good friend and two peers were not and my peer and I were but back right after the announcement. after that we have not heard anything but the rumor mill. And there was a lot of that. If you look back how much of this has been fact to Thursday? I would say very little outside of October and November announcement. And it has taken 2 months to get here. Tells me this was done by very few.
So we're all lower managers in this thread? Really hard to believe managers don't know something.
Agreed. Lower managers do not know. The decisions are coming from the least capable people and most disconnected at the top, with zero ties and knowledge of their talent base.
I concur, I am a lower manager and all I know is rumors that others are floating. I have been told NOTHING about when or whom.
I think managers aren't going to be held to their old goals this year due to the layoffs.
I bet when the layoffs are done, they'll go through a reorg, and then set new goals they can easily achieve.
Plus, you have to consider two things.
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Anyone they lose, is going to negatively impact them because their goals for 2019 are already set, and need to be met. If they don't, it's on them.
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If they lose too many, they're going to get fired or demoted as well. I think I heard managers need a minimum of 5 people under them or something to keep on being a manager.