It is sad to see a lot of great people got laid. Top performers that were also very liked by peers and colleagues…
It is worse to hear that some senior leaders who were not that good and not very much liked are getting rehired back just because some manager wants them back. Why? Probably because they have been working together for 10-15 years and have each others back. I can understand that but why go through the theatre?
Why go through a difficult restructuring only to give a loophole for the select few? One which is not based on meritocracy but politics.
Some are coming back with less responsibilities but same compensation, just waiting to get their old leadership roles back…
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No this activity isn’t illegal in North America. The scenario from the original post is also a bit different than what « sap employee » described: in this case, positions are terminated but then, management requests headcount to rehire the resource under a different position. In this case, resource usually keeps compensation package and level so it’s win-win. I have seen this happen a few times in NA as a way to keep key resources after reorg but I cannot imagine this would fly in Germany with the works council. Good or bad, there is no works council in NA and it’s mgmt discretion.
Where are you located? Because in EMEA this kind of activity is illegal.
Technically there are 2 flavours of layoff: your role was made redundant(role eliminated completely) or restructured(you have been moved to different organisation with slightly different job responsibilities).
If it is the first option and job is eliminated, then in most country employer has to report it to labour market outside the company and mark this role as no longer existing. They cannot re-hire someone for that role because it doesn’t exist in job market term for labour office. So if this happens then probably the fact that role was “eliminated” was a lie and never reported as per labour code to the required institution. If that is the case you might want to bring it to the attention of the work union, if you have one
You got laid, most of us got sc--wed;)
I for one definitely got laid....
@1vwq+1sFlk791 Every stock on the market is highly overvalued. We are seriously waiting for the stock to correct itself.
Nepotism rules, meritocracy drools.
It will never change.
Happily VERP-ed.
No wonder my financial advisor showed me a report that rates SAP current stock price at 40 dollars too high. She says they got hit in the report with "Ethics violations", but maybe that has to do with the Iran thing?
Anyway she told me if it were here she would sell at least 2/3rds of the stock I have fully vested.
Nothing new, this has happened before: opening a position for employee to move to after restructuring order falls to keep a senior employee…It’s the local leadership way is saying sc--w ya to the WDF mothership for not consulting them on the restructuring plan:)
At the end, same people at the top playing musical chair and nothing really changes, it’s always the cogs at the bottom who end up in the meat grinder…or having their jobs shipped to low cost locations.
Our entire team was cut to move our jobs to Brazil. Ask me how many are on board there? None. So our highly visible work has had 2 jr developers who joined us maybe 8 months ago are literally drowning trying to keep select care clients happy. I’ve been told these clients have been screaming that their data is jacked up and that the higher ups don’t care.
Senior leader stated on call during the week that they had now replaced everybody who had been laid off on their team during restructure, hiring mostly in Brazil. Totally ridiculous, they aren't even trying to keep up the pretence that this was anything more than dumping employees to hire cheaper elsewhere for the exact same roles.