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From my experience, the people who are fired (or leaving) usually still provide value. Yes, they are not going to put in their best effort, but they can finish
by yreg 3y ago
From my experience, the people who are fired (or leaving) usually still provide value. Yes, they are not going to put in their best effort, but they can finish their in-progress tasks, hand over work to other people, etc. Even if they put less effort into it, it's much easier for them than for the new person who would have to pick it up with no context.
However, I understand that with a massive layoff and a timescale of 6 months it could have turned out far worse than the situation I describe.
- hot_gril 3y agoWhenever I've seen teammates leave, they still get the remaining 2 weeks to hand things off. But it doesn't help very much other than for saying goodbye. I can see why for layoffs, the risk of letting them stay outweighs the benefit. No way is a laid off employee going to actually help in the last 2 weeks.
- yreg 3y ago> No way is a laid off employee going to actually help in the last 2 weeks. To add a data point: Not only have my laid-off colleagues helped to finish and smoothly hand over tasks, but we are now actively rehiring some of them back. To be fair, the company didn't pull any BS like e.g. Cloudflare telling laid-off employees that they are underperformers. In our case, it was crystal clear that we've lost clients and don't have enough work and money for salaries to keep everyone and that that's the only single reason they are being laid off.
- hot_gril 3y agoIt makes sense in that situation. I'm thinking about Goog, Amzn, or Twitter laying people off basically to cut costs with no clear reason.