Does it seem to anybody else that we have shifted to a slow trickle of layoffs instead of the usual larger layoff rounds?
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5 people in my department have been mysteriously and quietly removed from our teams chat in the past week. "Unknown user has been removed".
Fire a few, replace with many at same cost - budget same
Fire a few more, hire a few more - budget green
Fire more - budget looks great - just in time for bonus
What about service? Takes time for complaints to roll in and by then everyone is happy with their big fat bonus’s and look to repeat.
Yep lay off US employees so they can hire offshore. They did that with the US helpdesk. Firsed everyone left on the US side (40 techs) and had reqs already online for the Philippines that Friday. To bad a large news network doesn't enquire why the company feels the need to lay off US employees when we are almost the economy is fine.
$18 billion in PROFIT in the last quarter but no money to keep US people... Fing insane.
It allows them to get around the WARN Act. Simple as that.
delaying and trickling because they either need people or want to avoid more bad press while they try to recover from the Change Healthcare security mess
Keeps them under the radar and shareholders in the dark.