https://www.inc.com/jprocopio/are-return-to-office-mandates-really-just-mass-layoffs-in-disguise/90983360
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"in disguise"
I see several sales jobs posted and in LinkedIn I see people finishing training yet many are getting WFR. There are several inside sales, sales manager, product manager and technical support jobs posted and at the same time they are in chopping block.
they should offer early retirement then...problem solved
seems to be a method of quiet firing
I would say it's entrapment for potential layoffs. The majority of people who are told to RTO will not comply. Corporations know this. It's like when the company opens up opportunities for early retirement plans. People who qualify will know the consequences of not taking it.
If you don't move or take early retirement, you're a prime target for layoffs when the opportunity is ripe. Now you goofed up and you won't get as many benefits as you would have for the prior opportunity to leave.
Companies who tell you to risk your livelihood for the sake of internal protocols and mandates, clearly don't have your best interest in mind.
Godspeed to those affected. The tech industry is taking a nose dive.
Yes. Dell doesn't have the ba11s to do it in one massive swath or make any really strong rules like IBM or other organizations did. Dell management is spineless.
@phi+1uQPHiQG No they will wait for the package.
I find it doubtful.
Lower quality employees will obviously comply and hold on.
High performance will quit as soon as they can.
Not really disguised…
It is the legal way to cause natural attrition for those who won’t go back. Layoffs will happen. Terminations will to and many will quit. They have to downsize
It is forced attrition. That article is headache inducing, non-committal drivel though.
the article didn't really say much..just seemed like some writer was trying to be cutesy with his/her writing.
As many of us have been saying, RTO is all about forcing attrition.