How were the chosen people selected to move vs stay? I’ve seen people with the same job title go in different directions while they do the same thing.
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@a2 managers weren’t informed and really have no info to share. I am a manager and had zero idea and neither did any of the others I work with.
As a manager, I can say that at my level, there was no input. My organization lost roughly 30%, some young and newer to the company, some at or near retirement age with decades of service. Some that were not highly effective, some that are irreplaceable. Some highly compensated, some not. Some re-badged, others RIF'd. The only commonality is that they were all remote, but I cannot imagine that was the only driving force. The random nature of who goes and who stays is mind-boggling.
As a manager... We were not told or asked in advance. We didn't submit names. We weren't asked any weird questions which gave the game away.
Our VP/SVP barely knows the names of their Directors and definately not the staff and who is most valuable, so I dount they gave any meaningful input.
I think they just vibed the selection based on some arbitary feeling.
We're just numbers to those guys.
I have a theory. One day while in the office I overheard a manager being asked to rank his employees. My theory is the highest ranked employees got moved to Cognizant and the rest were riffed. I have since found out that many managers did this employee ranking sometime last year. This is just my theory. Like the rest of us, I am just trying to piece it all together.
@a2 managers don’t know, they were not part of the selection process, it was VPs in a room with TPO making random decisions without the basic knowledge of what they were doing…..they think there will be no client impact, what a joke, they do not give a $h|t about the clients only their own bank accounts
A lot of it looks to actually be down to location, remote workers and how fast the roles can be trained to offshore. There will be other areas impacted later this year I would bet. Stephanie has made it clear before that FIS is too open in its locations and WFH will be stopped. Expect smaller country offices to be phased out in the next 12 months.
And here it seemed as if names were put into a cereal box, shaken hard and removed randomly.
How do FIS do everything these days?
Obviously they pasted everyone’s details into Copilot and let AI choose!
@OP we were told it was based on “roles”. Whatever that means. Didn’t matter young old, experienced or green, billable or non billable. They said certain roles were not a competitive advantage to retain.
Thats what I was wondering too… still no answers from managers