Why weren't underperforming white-collar employees laid off in August already?
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Duhhh! Those low performers are friend and family. Therefore, they are special and must be given something "extra" to boot them out and not make them feel bad.
The 9 months pay is that something extra. But I know some specific upper echelon friends and family plan members who will not take the bait. They will wait for the next round when Ford HR ups the ante even more to get them to leave with out insulting the top tier friends and family employees.
1ppr+1jt7Ae6 - You may have a point there. Everyone I know who were let go seemed to have been white middle aged LL6 men.
Simple economics. Low achievers get lower pay raises and smaller bonuses. By August, the higher achievers were high on the salary paid spreadsheet. So you eliminate the higher compensated to make a bigger impact on the bottom line.
Many of the people cut in August were multi year high achievers, including some that were high achievers just last year!
Could it be that non-DEI employees were fired, but to avoid wrongful termination lawsuits DEI under performers are offered a buyout?
All the good ones are eliminated involuntarily. All the low performers get voluntary offers. These rocket scientists will bankrupt the company in few years.
Almost all the previous involuntary separation plans were done to supposedly eliminate structure, which meant managers. Or whole teams/departments were excluded from cuts. I can name several people that everyone agrees should have been gone years ago that fell into those categories. Some were quiet quitters before that was a thing and some never had the right skill set but bounced around because it was impossible to fire them.
In the old system, while people might fall behind on an objective, they generally achieved by the end of the year. The new quarterly check in allows management to set people up for elimination. Perhaps a "low performer" was still needed for a task in September, but the task is complete or a replacement has been identified, so this quarter they are a low performer.
August was done by Boston Consulting and the only criteria were age and salary. Think of the Bob’s from Office Space. There were absolutely top performers that were let go with no regard for long term impact to the company. F’n consultants and managers w/no ba--s to stand up to them!
Because August was reserved for only high performers. I know a lot of folks from August layoffs and they were all good. It is a stupid company and can't do anything right.
Well that's the question noone can answer. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Because technically they were not underperforming as of yet. Had to wait until that goofy quarterly PR stunt , er I mean plan was in place in enough areas of the company to do any good.
The former once a year PR process had majority finish up as Achiever, which is not underperforming- so they adopted a plan which they think will allow them to ID low performers. Guess they have short memories cause Jac the Kn--e Nassar tried the same thing and all her got for his trouble was one of the shortest tenure CEO reigns and law suits (which will happen now, too).