so it seems the round has come to europe.
no one from HR available. colleagues getting mails at 9 am monday morning that they are being let go, this is not according to the local laws and regulations.
well done mr. so called CEO what is your slogan 'our purpose is people' more like 'our purpose is money and stakeholders'
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They fast tracked the US notifications because people started seeing FedEx labels to return equipment before they got the email with their layoff notifications. Europe and Australia weren't informed till after the 4th of July weekend because local laws require a consultation process so you aren't fired till you've had the consultation and served a notice period.
This was the most botched lay-off round I have seen ever. Entire teams are gone and things are now getting delayed by weeks. Updates and fixes have been cancelled because there's no one to push them because entire engineering teams were let go.
Customers are most definitely being impacted but they're not going to say that outright.
The management seems to have had some realisation of the trust they've lost because one senior VP said as much in one of the meetings.
EMEA and APAC are smaller in size so not as much but have still been impacted and the overall way it is being done in those regions is pathetic. Expecting the management to start doing Roadshows to tow the company line.
Singapore joined in earlier today as well. Too bad we're all not from the preferred region. Too expensive. Need to cut cost and make the accounts look good for IPO.
I think it's 'funny' that they felt they had to hurry and notify impacted US employees last week due to rumors starting to circulate, yet they felt it was OK to wait on Europe. UKG, here is a news flash for you, the internet is global! They have botched this in nearly every way possible.