With the wave of layoffs across industry it'd be good to know how layoffs are normally done. Most importantly - do they normally target entire teams/orgs or they can target some random people across all teams/orgs? I heard some anecdotal stories that when layoffs are executed normally they target entire teams to avoid potential discrimination lawsuits. Can anyone familiar with the matter comment?
First, you notice it from blind. The internal one. In Stripe layoff, someone leaked it. Also people start to stalk leadership’s calendars to find out private meetings. Monitor what leadership says in slack channels. Etc.
it’s done to save money. expensive but low producing people are targeted. example: dino babies at ibm.
I can't believe that someone in the US just flat out laid off people over some age. That'd probably be an instant class action lawsuit.
Ageism isn’t a widely taken up social chase.. so companies do exploit this
1) business plan. Layoffs are generally planned when the company is looking to cut costs and create efficiencies in less important departments. Teams mapping towards highest business priorities (ie product teams for a super prio launch) to less significant teams on the layoff plan (ie recruiting) are stack ranked 2) usually quotas of heads / seniority or salary are assigned to heads of departments or teams. This is super high level and maps to the work in (1) 3) people managers make lists. This occasionally will include an entire team. If its say 2 people from a 10 person team performance and skills will be taken into account. 4) lists are passed up the chain. If its a quicker layoff there is less room for debate. Vps or department heads usually get final say. 5) layoffs coordinated with partners in hr and employment law, finance involved 6) layoffs executed Also keep in mind in the cutting phase your likability and popularity does play a role.
Well explained!
It’s not the same at every company, and even at the same company a layoff one year can be different than the next year. I’ve been though a layoff at a startup where the entire dev team was laid off and only devops / data center people remained to keep the lights on (I was devops and left pretty fast after that). Another layoff at a different startup where all the contractors got axed. Another at a large tech company and 10% of the team was laid off across every org. This sometimes took multiple painful days to finish because managers would push back and try to keep everyone they could. Another at the same tech company where everyone with just a single bad performance review was axed. Another where an 5% was laid off and mgmt realized it wasn’t enough so the next week another 5% was laid off And more recently, one that happened before I even woke up and part of my team was gone.
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First step is to leak to the news, preferably WSJ or NYT.
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