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Disagree. Why make the HR team go through 900 individual calls? At the same time this will leak and other employees will learn that they might get fired before
by baby 5y ago
Disagree. Why make the HR team go through 900 individual calls? At the same time this will leak and other employees will learn that they might get fired before they get their own call. Recipe for disaster. Just rip off the band aid.
- bumby 5y agoI think it boils down to leadership is really about managing relationships. This method is just too impersonal for most people, just like breaking off a romantic relationship via text is generally considered weak and frowned upon.
- johndubchak 5y agoWait, you're not supposed to break up over text? Since when?!?!?!
- recursive 5y agoI'm almost certain this is a joke. Right?
- johndubchak 5y agoYes. My apologies, I thought it seemed obvious.
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- throwanem 5y agoI suspect it is rare, though I suppose not impossible, that anyone needs to break off 900 romantic relationships at once.
- bumby 5y agoI understand your point, but if there aren’t subordinate leaders below the CEO who can perform this function, I suspect they have organizational structure problems. I believe a good approach would be to have those first line leaders (who actually have that relationship built with their subordinates) break the bad news and then the CEO speak to everybody and own the decision.
- Spooky23 5y agoWhy would you need to text? Surely after seeing your relationship status change on Facebook, they would understand?
- tyingq 5y agoPresumably the 900 people already had leaders that could talk to them.
- buitreVirtual 5y agoEach manager would have to make that call to their laid-off reports, or the next manager in line if the manager is being laid off too. Maybe after that it would be ok for HR to have larger meetings with those affected to sort out the details.
- usrusr 5y ago“or the next manager in line if the manager is being laid off too“ What if the whole chains are axed? Recursive "or the next manager" could easily lead to exactly what happened: a CEO lucky to have a pandemic voiding all expectations to do something like that in person.
- time_to_smile 5y ago> Why make the HR team go through 900 individual calls? The entire reason companies have hierarchical power structures (in theory) at least, is so that information can be passed along with the log of the company size. Having every manager have 10 min call with each direct report, or in the worse case a team meeting, would be much more human and could accomplish the task of notification in roughly the same time window as an all hands firing.
- baby 5y agoYou got it right up until the point where you think it’s to pass information from top to down. It’s not. It’s to pass information from the bottom up.