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What do these slow 6/12 month reductions look like? I have a feeling this is happening where I work due to morale destroying team reshuffles every 5 or 6 months

• sokoloff 4y ago
  There's a spectrum of approaches, but I often see them starting as "hiring slowdowns, then 'all backfills need specific approval', then hiring freezes, often coupled with teams merging or being shuffled around. It's not that any individual of those things are bad decisions or terrible omens, but in combination or series of increasing pressures, they combine to become bad omens and, if left unaddressed, tend to accelerate the attrition of some employees with more options for employment, which leads to more team combinations/shuffling. The other, even worse IMO, path to slow reductions is "managing out a few underperformers over here", then "managing out a few underperformers over there", then "eliminating some roles in a product that isn't our core focus over here", then "closing down this group over here because reasons". Those series of small, involuntary terminations are a much stronger signal to be updating LinkedIn and your resume, IMO.