As part of the acquisition by Wyndham, the majority of La Quinta employees at the Irving office were given notice their jobs were eliminated. If they stay through the end of June and help in transition to Wyndham staff, they’re eligible for severance.
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Wyndham’s VP of Operations was a General Manager of a single hotel just 3 years ago. With that level of inexperience, it’s not surprising that they have no idea how many people and how much work it takes to properly support 320 hotels. Franchising hotels (which is Wyndham’s bread and butter) is not the same thing as actually OPERATING them. I think they are about to learn that the hard way.
40% of the home office employees were laid off including many employees with 20-30 years of tenure. Tons of institutional knowledge just kicked to the curb. The whole thing is so sad. Wyndham claimed they have similar core values, but it definitely does not appear they share LQ’s core value of “people”.