All my bosses in corporate are on PTO. It feels strange because the ones I knew taking vacation were taking it between the holidays and they were supposed to be here this week. It’s making me horribly nervous that they just don’t want to be around for the shoe to drop.
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Lots of associates including myself take time off in January.
My take on the PTO is a couple of things:
Need to use by Jan 31 or lose it. I know for 1 before we ramp up again full busy schedule.
If an announcement needed be done or HR, or their highest leader needed to wheel our directors in, emails, calls & texts would be made regardless of PTO. And like last poster mentioned this will take place for corporate probably the week of Jan 29, right before new fiscal begins.
Lastly when jobs are being cut, generally speaking some of the very high up positions to be cut (or offered a package) would have an earlier knowledge of their positions being eliminated (but could be 1000% percent wrong here).
I do know as fact based on July 2020 layoffs the process worked as :
department leaders will be asked to give the names of the heads they need to eliminate in their department, it is not chosen by random, each department will be given a specific number of people that need to go, then the leader of that department will give names to HR. It is a conscious thought out logistically decision. Its a tough situation for them but they have absolutely no choice but follow company direction.
The coming cuts and realignment will be a few weeks away. The announcement coming this week will be regarding store closures. A lot of corporate colleagues took last week and this week off, I wouldn’t read into that too much.
Nothing strange. Inventory delayed a week later than usual so bosses on vacation. Very few at my store ever take it between holidays so surprised some at your were planning to.
My boss did the same exact thing. Our group faced massive cuts. Boss was on PTO.