Is it a phone call? A meeting? Or an email? It would be good to know for the future.
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For the past few years, Avaya HR sends an invite for a meeting. The email says “your attendance is mandatory”.
They seem to send it after working hours, the evening before the meeting.
But once you receive this email, you know your fate.
For me, the meeting was very cold and non-caring. For HR people I’m sure it’s the only way for them to go through it time and again. Has to be a hard job for them.
In my meeting there were about 8 people being let go. The VP came on and told us a story about what was happening, then he dropped off.
The HR person explained next steps and asked if there were any questions.
Call was done in about 10 minutes. That’s all they gave us. Some people with decades of service keeping the company going are axed in only 10 minutes via a video conference.
Really hard to take. But it’s where we are at in the US right now.
Would be great if we could grow up and treat our employees better like they do in other countries. America is all about dollars.
I’m done…
My experience was very different.
March 2023, woke to the meeting invite for just me and local hr rep.
I knew straight away.
Meeting went well, very personal and went through in details the package I was getting.
Advised my work with Avaya ceased immediately but on gardening leave for all of April, so payed another month's salary on top of package.
Was offered courier service at Avaya's expense to get laptop and all other items, and provided access to 3 months of a service by external party to help refine resume and assist with job hunting.
Whilst I don't doubt some people's experiences here, I think it might differ region to region. Luckily for me, my country has very good employee protections, so don't feel like I was hard done by.
All the best to those going through this now. Always remember it's not you that's redundant it's the position, so it's not a personal reflection...
Just remember, when companies say people are their most valuable asset, what they really mean is that employees are their most liquid asset - salary savings are immediate.
Notified in March of 2023 -
Similar format as mentioned by others. Received a last minute "mandatory" meeting invitation with attendees hidden. The meeting host opened with something like "if you're on this call, you're impacted by this reduction" and instructed to reply to an email with your personal contact information because system access would be terminated at the close of the business day. Employees with decades of service, who were exceeding performance metrics were locked out and discarded in less than one day.
Galway to be hit again with100 job cuts.
email subject "Business Update", arrives like a thief in the night.
Call goes something like this: "This is going to hurt us much more than it's going to hurt you"
No badge return required because soon there will be no doors to open.
No good bye kiss either.
In September 2022 it was an email meeting invite titled "Important Business Update".
It was sent late the night before (so you didn't see it while working during the day).
The invite was from an unknown person in HR to about 50 or so people. The call was very abrupt and was just going through the motions of reading the script "Thank you for your service but you have been impacted, all access will be cut off by 5:30".
To me it is a sign of a company that knows they are never hiring in any meaningful way and growing again.
I'm new here, if you can't tell.