Nexient laid off aprox 100+ people. How did they approach it? Sent a calendar invite individually to each person, Pinged them personally, Had a convo with EACH PERSON 1 BY 1, They still have access to systems until Feb 3rd, Can INTERNALLY transfer to a new role by Feb 3rd, If no role is found you get severance. Townhall meeting was held and laid off employees were invited as well, able to vent their fustrations for all to see. That is getting laid off with some damn respect, big tech needs to learn from the best. Dont @ me.
Unfortunately that approach doesn’t scale
Well whoever says it doesn’t scale. Ask the c suite to get numbers right and fire them first. It’s a lame excuse. The govt is handling immigration in a similar scale but the processes take time. Layoffs can be spread out. It’s the PR process and investors that they are trying to please with the big numbers
If they can hire the right amount, then their numbers will always be on the lower side
How would Google have 10k meetings?
Whos fault is that? Should have fired in small numbers. Sundar is chilling on the beach with 2 blondes and a beer.
No one is at fault. Firing in smaller numbers is silly and painful. Would be ridiculous to both employees and shareholders to fire 100 people a day for 100 days .
What difference does that make in all honesty? Id take a better severance package over being told face to face im getting laid off
I’ve been laid off before, and we had a conversation / group forum with the VP of our group for all laid off people after being told by our managers individually. It was a complete waste of time. Sure they were apologetic, took the blame themselves, and answered all of our questions. Did it matter? Not one single iota. It’s a pretty pathetic process actually. If you’re laid off, why would you want to spend one more second with the company that did it to you? Every second you are there from that moment doesn’t matter, except to maybe make the managers / executives feel better about it. Just zip your lips, walk out, while giving them the middle finger, like they just did to you.
It matters because people was still getting paid for all the extra seconds they stayed and will get paid till 3rd Feb. But yes getting money is better than these all meetings
Well you are comparing a company with thousands and a company with hundreds. Sure it’s not the best way to do things but big tech also pays out severance and bonus’s that are most likely triple what Nexient pays. So I would say people in big tech are still pretty well off compared to people in Nexient due to how low the pay is compared to big tech. So I believe those are the trade offs of working at big tech vs a smaller company.
What did they offered as severance package? Need to know as I might get layoff.
Two weeks and no they didn't help find internal roles
It’s because they had 100 people. There was no way any tech giant would have done this way - not defending what they did but you have to consider scale here
Still doesnt make it right
As I said I am not defending what big tech did. But they had no other option