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Whenever 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
by hot_gril 3y ago
Whenever 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.