Employees are like tissue papers to management. Tissue papers are very critical for before doing certain things but once your work is over the view on tissue papers changes. Unfortunately many of in MetricStream management treat employees like tissue papers, in case of customer escalations management select some critical employees to solve the issues. After solving the problem, employee get appreciations, awards, salary hikes, promotions - also some enemies because it’s finger point game between teams.
At the end the same employee will be in the layoff list because of high salary or some manager did not like your way of work.
1: Management/Leadership think - how the salary which you offered becomes high suddenly when you are terminating employee?
2: If management did not like employee because employee good work causing problems to your job so including that employee in termination list is not ethical. Think once about the politics you play in work, think how you receive same happens to you. Everyone is doing their job, please be honest on your decisions.
Layoff the employees based on performance, not based on salary. Note that employee salary is offered by the BU head if he joined newly, BU head is accepted the truth that employee performed well thats why the high salary is offered. Same BU head again terminating employee with high salary reason is not the ethical