It used to be formal layoffs with packages were the only thing to worry about. Now they're moving toward firing people individually. I personally know three people let go for reasons that made no sense. One had fine reviews but was told their performance was poor. Really? I hope they talk to a lawyer.
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Some details left out of the OP story.
On the macro-level - once they filled that position at the Global Capability Center offshore, they don't need the American counterpart anymore. That's likely the one-off going on throughout the company.
@bg one side is also free to tell whatever version they feel is the "truest". Aka the version that makes them look like they didn't absolutely fu-k up.
Yes, it's well known people get managed out and shady stuff happens. But I think OPs friends aren't telling the full story.
It's very difficult to fire people. Your fired friends are either not giving you the whole story, or you're not giving us the whole story.
Not defending the company here, because everywhere it feels like folks are just waiting their turn to be laid off and it's demoralizing, but the hard part about terminations, especially about involuntary terminations, is that one side is free to tell whatever story they want and management is not allowed to reveal any details.
Oh they use the revisionist history performance improvement plan. No severance. Yay! Value for the shareholders.
BS
HR doesn’t let managers fire people just for something as generic as low performance with no forewarning or documented evidence of discussions and opportunity to improve. Something more to the terminations. .