4 ms·
This completely misses the human equation. What people will remember is how much notice they were given, and whether they were provided with some kind of reaso
by PonyGumbo 16y ago
This completely misses the human equation. What people will remember is how much notice they were given, and whether they were provided with some kind of reasonable severance. If people work their hearts out for you and lay them off without notice, that's just bad business.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoAt the same time, if I know layoffs are coming and I'm likely to get cut, guess how much work I'll be putting into the company.
- sunir 16y agoIt doesn't matter how likely you actually are to get cut. Turns out everyone feels their job is at risk until they know it isn't, so productivity falls across the board.
- EdiX 16y agoIf you consider you employee mindless drones who do not notice or care that their colleagues have been laid off on the spot without any advance notice or severance, then, by all means, lay off left and right as much as you please.
- Unseelie 16y agoHis point on notice was that waiting enough time to give notice was damaging. When you decide you need to amputate, you don't let the problem get any worse. An announcement that there may be layoffs would be good, but he stresses that layoffs should happen as soon as humanly possible after that decision is reached. Please do cut off my arm before the gangrene spreads.
- PonyGumbo 16y agoUnderstood, but I fundamentally disagree with it. Your employees aren't diseased limbs - they're people, just like you, who have families and mortgages and obligations of their own. There's no acknowledgment of that at all in his article.
- harshpotatoes 16y agoI have a friend who worked at a fairly large, private company. He was layed off but given more than three months notice. It sounded like the best possible way to be layed off.