How does the actual act of communicating that you've been laid off happen?
Do they call you in a conference room?
Who is there?
What do they tell you?
How long does it take?
Many of us are anxious, please share.
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That's horrible. Which Country/centre?
They done it today via phone and sacked an account director today early morning
Depends on the manager/department, or at least has in the past. When I was laid off several years ago, my manager and HR rep didn't make the trip from London to close down the group I was in. I had the option to take someone in with me. Always worth doing that, because you could be in an emotional state and not take it all in, and in my case, I didn't trust HR not to screw things up needed someone who was on my side in the room. Other managers I have spoken to, will make the effort to be human and do it face to face. This current round of lay-offs will be much better managed (hopefully), as there will be such large numbers. . Good luck.
Just take a look at the first sequence of Margin Call picture.
In the room there will be a HR representative, the employee and the manager. The employee may be called by phone and asked to come to the room, or someone may collect them (sometimes the manager does this). In the room, the manager will read a mandatory statement with the business reasons about why the company has made the decision to make staff redundant, he/she may explain the specifics about how it affects that employee's group or team, and then inform that employee that as part of the exercise, they have been identified for redundancy, if a skills matrix was used the scoring of that employee only may be shared, but not much more. The HR representative will pick up and explain the process from that point onwards, severance information will not be provided in that meeting, unless the employee is in a senior role, at which point they may disclose it and the process may be a little different.
Thank you @enb this helps
What happened in 2016 is that the head of your department would be there with your HR business partner and your line manager.
They communicate your package, you sign the papers, pack up your items and off you go!
In central and regional offices, professional third party people do the job and bouncers make sure that everything is kept in order!