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It's incredible that he would say that, and what is worse is that he apparently also believes that. But self-selection never works out for a company. It is the
by lkrubner 4y ago
It's incredible that he would say that, and what is worse is that he apparently also believes that. But self-selection never works out for a company. It is the most talented people who leave -- the least talented will hang onto their lucrative Facebook jobs for as long as possible. When a company needs to shrink, it needs to be pro-active in figuring out who to let go. Merely passively letting it happen is a bad plan.
- yrgulation 4y agoIt sounds almost as if he gives managers a green light to push workers out. “self selection” is a euphemism for quitting without severance. i hope facebook employees pay attention to how their “transfers” to other teams or changes in workload are made as to not be intentionally designed to make them quit.
- JJMcJ 4y agoTypical would be very unpleasant pre-PIP ordeals. Of course managers are busy doing this instead of guiding their projects. Bad for the projects and bad for the companies. It's exactly how Lumberghs or Pointy Haired Bosses get created.
- JJMcJ 4y agoIBM, HP, some of the other big institutional employers, found this out in the 1980s. They offered buyouts for senior employees. I'm not sure exact terms, but something like a year's severance and adding five years service time to your pension, because they did have company pensions back then. Some people just took the money and retired. Others took the money, and got other jobs, so they had a huge windfall and continued their careers And those who stayed behind? Some were company loyalists, but many were exactly those who felt they could never get a decent job anywhere else.