There seems to be a never-ending line of reorganizations with each one achieving even less than the previous one. I'd like to know why are they necessary? What's their ultimate goal? Why can't we go a full year without either a company-wide or a department reorganization?
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i'm out of here guys, let go earlier today, out of nowhere. Keep the information flowing here. I would like to see what happens next.
what are the details of the reorg?
We need as many reorgs as is required to purge this organization of undesirable females and DM's who can't control their obesity or alcoholism.
Reorgs are a superficial way of saying 'cost-cutting' at Cengage. It allows the company to bypass HR and the normal performance management process to cut positions immediately and roll the responsibility set to someone who stays. This cost cutting is the most effective way to make the books look OK - expect it to continue yearly via reorg.
Can anyone provide the reorgs details? Curious prior employee here.
Endless reorgs are a signal of incompetent management and being completely out of touch with your employees and customers. Reorgs waste time, energy and are a source of distraction for employees.
Reorgs are common during periods of rapid growth or rapid decline. Which do you think is happening now?
Are they poorly timing an IPO attempt again?
Reorganizations will continue until morale improves, or until all the career cat ladies are terminated, whichever happens first
It’s really simple; the executives devising the reorgs are completely divorced from reality.
Since they don’t understand the needs of the market and the company’s ability (or inability) to meet those needs, they make an unrealistic plan, execute it poorly, and are then surprised when the plan doesn’t work.
So, of course, they panic, devise a new plan that is equally removed from what the market wants and the company can actually accomplish, execute the new flawed plan, and are again surprised when it fails.
And the cycle repeats until no one’s left and the company is sold off for parts.