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> Layoffs reportedly came after a long executive retreat for the company's leaders and were conducted with no advanced notice. Employees who were not let go wer
by beedogs 10y ago
> Layoffs reportedly came after a long executive retreat for the company's leaders and were conducted with no advanced notice. Employees who were not let go were told not to show up to work today. Those who did show up were the unlucky ones: they had generic human resources meetings rather ominously added to their calendars last night. So, everyone who arrived at Cyanogen Inc. in Seattle this morning did so to lose their job (aside from those conducting the layoffs). That's a bit grim.
It's like startups are looking to one-up each other in terms of "crappy ways to treat employees you're letting go."
- sdoering 10y agoWow - if this really is true, I am so happy to be living in a country with at least basic employee protection.
- duncanawoods 10y agoI am too but I'm not sure a drawn out layoff process benefits anyone. When looking from either side of the table, I think I'd prefer short, sharp and with good severance.
- bcook 10y agoYour addition of a good severance package changes the situation greatly...
- Atropos 10y agoI disagree. I once worked for a services company that basically had a "6 month notice" policy, meaning if they let someone know July 23th 2016, he still has a job until January 31 2017. This gives people the opportunity to start looking for work elsewhere, without even having to reveal that they "got fired". And it's just not as much of a psychological shock for the employees. Plus, if the firing was not performance related, but due to the company not being hired for enough projects, this was something that could change after 4+ months if the company had a lucky streak, and it sometimes did happen.
- Pyxl101 10y agoWhat do you find to be wrong about this situation, and what kind of protection are you looking for? How would it help in this scenario - force Cyanogen to keep the employees on, and go bankrupt, or lay off most employees and probably still go bankrupt (but with some chance of survival)?
- cocotino 10y agoI'd rather see a corporation go bankrupt with their employees treated well, honestly.
- sdoering 10y agoWell. To fire someone from one day to the next is nearly impossible here in Germany. You always have some time (a minimum being defined by the law) of time between the day they tell you of their decision and your last working day. This time is there for your protection to enable you to seek another job. That was what I was talking about. If I can get fired from one day to the next a company would at least have to pay me a hefty premium as I would be not better of then say a freelancer.
- imglorp 10y agoWhile common hr legal blah blah blah, it's inhumane not to let people wrap up their personal relationships and document their work.
- imglorp 10y agoWhile common hr legal blah blah blah, it's inhumane not to let people wrap up their personal relationships and document their work.