Question came up asking about layoffs since our department is said to be somewhat overstuffed. Per our department head layoffs are not likely over 30 this year as Transformative Growth has led to a "Talent Sharing" ideology and that instead of being laid off we will be moved to other departments where they are short staffed. She anticipated as 2022 goes that this will continue and we have already had over 30 peers and leaders transitioned to other departments instead of having to lay them off.
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Oh yeah. Management and many frontline leaders are informed of layoffs well ahead. We knew about the November 2020 layoffs that summer before and we knew who was being laid off even before assessments were done. The assessments were just a legal cover of what was really going on. They meant nothing.
@6fmf+1gHB7Noz My former manager who left after the last round was informed of layoffs months before they happened but was not allowed to discuss what was going on with anyone except a few other managers that were told the same thing, once my manager left and after the layoffs were announced we were told how it all went down.
If you are being told no layoffs by D-F level they probably are saying what they are told, if above F or sometimes F they are probably prevented from telling you the truth.
Allstate is firm on the don't disclose, there was lower level manager that disclosed what they weren't supposed to and were gone in 2 days.
I spent 22 of my 35 years in various levels of management. You need to take what you’re told with a grain of salt as when I knew about certain projects, layoffs, etc. I along with others had to sign NDA’s, so I was forced to mislead my employees and at times my peers as well when asked questions like that.
I have been to this dance before, like the other times at other companies first they will lay off contractors (if any are used in your department), then they will start cancelling open jobs, as people leave they won't fill roles, if there are not enough people leaving the cuts will happen and they will happen but to what level is unknown for the most part.
India will grow and that will cause claims here in the states to go down which will cause layoffs in claims and recruiting.
I was talking to a coworker who was here for the last round and the look on his face on our zoom call when I told him the scenario was of amazement as for the most part he said that is what happened but it was over a few years.
They said no layoffs in 2020 due to the pandemic and we all know the he-l they put us through. I do not believe this statement.
Can you be more specific on which department town hall? Not all areas of company at the same risk.
The leadership has a tendency to change their mind pending market fluctuation. For now nothing on the horizon but this can change quickly. Remember they have been grasping for an answer decades long. They still have not found the formula for success yet. Reinventing basic claim settlement process into a mind boggling jigsaw puzzle is what they are good at. More steps, more tasks, more metrics will continue to fail over and over again.
Don’t buy it. Wilson said the same thing in early 2020 then cut 4,000 USA employees the day after Thanksgiving that year, in a pandemic. Clearly these executives try to mind f-k everyone.
We as well were told no or very few layoffs this year but we must be open to transforming into completely different roles if moved and required.
They made it pretty clear that this was the strategy already