Mass restructuring to happen in tech.
The majority of the people will be silently repurposed, with new responsibilities being forced on them. This is due to start middle of October.
The basis for the change is to force people to accept lower responsibilities job families that can be afterwards outsourced.
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No surprise if this happens in germany. There was a guy a couple of years ago in the worker’s council, who I heard got high up in their hierarchy. Corrupt to the bone, liar, playing company games. He told one of my co-workers who was bullied out of the company by his manager and HR, that workers council has no obligations towards employers except pretend listening, nodding and protecting their own interests because the company will do what it wants and get away with it anyway and all he and his colleagues cared about was to get into rente.
With my current employer, the workers council does make a whole lot of a difference, for both AT and non-AT, can even influence company business strategy, because they are not corrupt and just because they know that it is their job to protect employees and not their friends and own petty interests.
Changes can happen. A workers council can be dismembered if employees request it and workers council admits they lost trust. The problem could be the list elections, where the same corrupt people might show up again.
Employees can freely choose the union and not be forced in the one that they want you to be in. There are strong unions in Germany that really can change things and work in your interest.
Learn, educate yourselves and exercise your rights!
There is domain alignment already happening in india tech Hub which has become biggest tech Hub by number of employees at 1000.
And it clear they hired lot or folks here who were not needed.
They are trying to change reporting lines so that employees can report globally.
I think this is done to identify redundant roles .
I think we have to point the finger to KR and the wider board as well.
The decision behind the HUGE tech investment we’ve made is still linked to OTG, a strategy made and signed-off by people who didn’t know our industry well enough, AND planned for something other than a global pandemic followed by economic chaos.
We heavily over-indexed in Tech investment, this has been clear for a long time, but probably only really understood when BG came with fresh eyes. The WoCo is just one reason we didn’t see huge layoffs already…They only protect employees in Germany, and I’m not sure how much Tech HC we have there vs other locations?
The real reason this takes a while is probably due to sunk cost fallacy. Many huge projects kicked off, and many expensive leases started, many huge budgets allocated…..Tough to stop - but it’s necessary.
Given the size of the company, IT is bloated. Unfortunately, this is due to poor management and leadership within IT. If not for the protection of works council, there would have been mass layoffs already. We need IT leaders who understand Technology and can build a Tech organization that can serve /// better. What we have is a huge money pit right now. I feel sorry for the folks who are unfortunately going to get impacted but the writing has been on the wall for some time. The ones who have kept their skillsets up to date will be fine, for the rest, be prepared for some bad times.
New tricks, same game.
If this is going to happen in Germany, then the Worker’s Council sold their souls to the devil again. How many of all those directors and yes men, are still in bed with the enemy while being Worker’s Council members? They should be ashamed of themselves.