When do employees find out? And then will they be walked out same day or 2 weeks still?
When do managers find out? Will it be same day or before their employees do?
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they only have layoffs on Days that end in 'Y"
@an they can release the WARN the day of the layoffs if the last day is at least the required period out. That is how it happened with Target. Zero warn fired until the morning they let 2,000 people go. Their actual last day is January 2nd.
All to say they could absolutely gut HQ staff or large office/clinic staff and you won’t see the WARN until after it happens.
@as Managers know ahead of time if they are not impacted. In my case my manager was RIFed an hour before our team and didn't know we were also being let go.
@at same thought. I'm sure there are areas planned to be reduced or made redundant but it's never applied to all departments the same. I'm in the OT lane, and the biggest changes coming are related to reducing offshore contractors.
@an not in anyway discrediting this but my team is still expecting normal pace of projects/deals. We are the endpoint of most projects in our division so I am not seeing an early January push. I am at HQ.
@an will managers know same day or do you think managers will know ahead of time?
Any given Thursday.
January 22 is the announcement. Lots of projects will rush in the first three weeks of the year to get done. If you're getting unusual pressure to complete projects by that deadline, it's part par for the course, part because you're out. Those in the know and sticking around are squeezing every last minute of work from USA-based teams.
It's so big I don't know how we avoid WARN, legal must have convinced themselves that WFH = each residence is a job site. Interesting to see how we avoid WARN with RTO - only way I see is future layoffs are to remote workers.