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The pandemic makes it easier to make layoffs you were considering otherwise. It gives both employers and employees cover by letting them point to big economic c
by hirundo 7y ago
The pandemic makes it easier to make layoffs you were considering otherwise. It gives both employers and employees cover by letting them point to big economic changes. I'm firing you because virus, not because I made a mistake when I created your department. I got fired because virus, not because I wasn't productive. It saves face all around, making jobs less sticky.
- justinzollars 7y agoor when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked.
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- solumos 7y agoNo, nobody was naked - the tide was just so strong that their swimsuits fell off.
- justinzollars 7y agoI respectfully disagree.
- toomanybeersies 7y agoOn the other hand, my company has cut hours for the entire product/dev team by 20% (not sure what the consulting side is doing, I don't talk to them much) rather than make layoffs. Makes me actually trust them when they say they have no intention to make anybody redundant if they can avoid it. They actually want to keep me employed if they can help it. The fact that I've turned up late 3 days a week for 2 years and never got written up for it attests to that too, I must be pretty good at coding I guess.
- mifreewil 7y ago> turned up late 3 days a week for 2 years and never got written up for it attests to that too I'm grateful I don't work at a company where you get written up for being late. Sounds like high school.
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- manigandham 7y agoThat's completely contextual to the actual position and responsibilities. Plenty of jobs require being on time.
- mifreewil 7y agoSounds like it’s not that important for this job.
- rclayton 7y agoIf you’re late to standup 3 days a week, I’d consider that quite unprofessional.
- jonny_eh 7y agoThen standup is just a way to force employees to show up at an arbitrary early time.
- takeda 7y agoIt is also easier, California lifted WARN requirement, which required companies to give 60 day notice to employees when laying off a large number of them.