Once layoffs start, are they usually completed the same day? This’ll be my first layoff since I joined, and I’m more stressed than I’ve ever been. I’m worried one of the criteria will be last in, first out, which means I’m probably gone. I don’t think I can handle this dragging on for more than a day once it starts.
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@en This is true about September. Heavy on Gen X and older employees. Double the chances if you were a 40+ aged employee and were relatively a newer hire. They threw in a few 20 somethings to dodge an age discrimination accusation.
Last year's dejobbing happened over several weeks, but the number was very large and it was global, so maybe that's why.
In the US the laid off were given weeks of "garden leave", which surprised me as that is not how O did it years past,
Being outside of the firewall now, and with still employed former colleagues being tight lipped, my only source of rumors is here.
One of the patterns that did happen in a layoff of last sept was as follows:
Strong age concentration in selections (40+ and especially 50+)
Across nearly all job families, employees selected for termination skew heavily older, particularly:
Ages 45–60 dominate “Selected” counts
Ages 55–65 appear very frequently in selected rows
Under 35 employees are far more often Not Selected
This pattern repeats consistently across:
Applications Developers
Software Developers
Product / Program Managers
IT, Security, DBA roles
Analysts, QA, Technical roles
This is visible on almost every page, not just isolated roles
When in USA it can be done in one day, other countries it cannot be done in one country due to local laws and in other countries employees can take Oracle to courts. And it happens in other countries.
@op, here's a Pro Tip:
When you get to the moment of truth, where it's time to subordinate yourself, remember to relax your b*tt muscles.
@op buy some lube it will help ease into it. It happens every quarter.
At the level of your org+country, in 1 or 2 days most likely. Company-wide....months.
@OP Just because you are a fairly new hire doesn't mean you're on the chopping block. Many of us had been there between 25 and 30+ years when we were cut.
Like someone else said in this thread, the only pattern here is there is no pattern.
NO way is it done in a day. It ravels around the world, and must respect local laws and employee protections!
I had been hearing about layoffs for maybe 2 weeks last August when I finally got my call. I doubt it will be just one day, but who knows? We have wonderful AI making everything more efficient, right?
Had a front row seat to a lot of layoffs. The only pattern is that there is no pattern. Being last one in does not mean your chances are worse.