Remember that getting laid off isn’t necessarily a reflection of your performance or value

I’m not sure whether it’s just Houston or all locations. Houston has a lot more to process than other locations so it could go either way at other locations. My recommendation is to start cleaning your laptop of any personal stuff, take personal things home now through the next few weeks, and then you’re prepared on Nov 10th regardless of what happens. Even if it happens in the office at your location, you probably don’t want to be walking down the hall with a box of your things for all to see. Where’s the dignity in that? For those that are told to WFH, the typical process is to mail you a pre-labeled box that you can use to ship your laptop and any other company property back to the company. There’s obviously no cost to you because the box is already labeled for prepaid shipping by the company. Everyone agrees that this whole thing is a difficult process, and for some a devastating one. Everyone I’ve spoken to is stressed out and very uncomfortable with what’s coming. Nonetheless, everyone will get through it one way or another. Life will go on and those who lose their jobs (unwillingly) will find new opportunities to begin the next chapter of their lives. Life does not end with one’s job. Remember that getting laid off in this round isn’t necessarily a reflection of your performance or value. This is such a large layoff that many good people that perform well will be dismissed. But, life will go on and those that are laid off will find the next opportunity in the next chapter of their lives.

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Of course there are going to be practical considerations which favor incumbency. Good people can be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

However, implicit to every situation is to retain the best people. If a team or BU is looking to cut 50% of a function, they're going to want to cut the bottom 50% (within the dual desire of also retaining incumbent knowledge). Same goes for a 25% cut or a 75% cut. You try to keep good people.

As mentioned, it is an imperfect filter and there will be a few good people tossed out with the bad. This imprecision is innate to any filter, (E.g. hiring, university admission, promotion, etc). Just because it is imperfect doesn't take away from the signaling value.

Not sure why this was reposted from a reply to another post. Smells like an HR post to make their jobs easier.

Want to know how many HR ppl will get laid off … Zero, just like always.

Not if they ring fence business units and don’t move people around after a lay-off. Then you end up with cutting excellent employees due to no fault of their own just because they happen to be in a poorly performing business unit. Those types of layoffs are orchestrated by inexperienced and ruthless executives.

It's an imperfect filter, but the intent is certainly to cut the weaker employees.

Tell this to the people who are left. Half of them will think they are better than the people who were layed off and will make up reasons why specific individuals were let go. This is another opportunity for the worst of human behavior to come out. On another negative note some people will end up with PTSD from the experience whether they are let go or not. This does not go away and will surface anytime future reorganizations are announced. Time will heal but the fear will always be there. Good luck to all.

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