A better way to handle layoffs

But just because cuts are sometimes unavoidable doesn't mean we have to handle them with all the sensitivity of a Mafia hit job. The current process of frog-marching employees out the door and disappearing them on Slack is not only degrading to employees, but it's also counterproductive for employers. "The fact that something's a common practice doesn't make it a good practice," says Sandra Sucher, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. "Companies are kidding themselves if they think this process doesn't redound back into the organization's culture."

https://www.businessinsider.com/layoffs-firings-tech-hr-tiktok-cloudflare-employee-morale-bad-business-2024-1

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Tell Dell a fairytale is the “family” game. Stroke management up with adorable accolades. Everyone gets a participation trophy to then one day carry out in a box to the parking lot.

Tell Dell, even more of a joke than the RTO policy. Add that to the yearly ethics, compliance, and cyber security training. It's like their goal is to find ways to ki-l productivity and waste our time.

Well. Tell Dell is a joke. If you give bad reviews on whatever topics the questions are, they hold the low scores against your manager. If you like your mgr you cannot answer the questions honestly. Else, they take rhe hit. The bad scores do not go up to the top for the blame. And, no way is it anomynous. They know who answered what.

The current process of frog-marching employees out the door and disappearing them on Slack...

It has been that way at tech companies for at least twenty-five years. Nothing new here.

@ytq+1rasrB0v Tell Dell is a complete waste of time.

@ytq+1rasrB0v Because you can buy your "Best place to work" award.

Dell hasn't changed the way it does WFRs since the very first one in 2001.

I can still remember the poor folks carrying their boxes out to their cars after being RIF'd from RR2 and all the news reporters filming them since it was the first WFR Dell ever did. It was a circus. At least the media isn't involved these days

I don't understand how dell is in the best places to work! Please be true in Tell dell.

Dell used to be a family. Maybe it still is just a mob family. Wait the mob is loyal

dell is family

Unfortunately this is the culture at Dell

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