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This seems especially cruel in the wake of recent tech layoffs where you can find out that you're no longer employed while riding a corporate bus to work in the
by rwz 20d ago
This seems especially cruel in the wake of recent tech layoffs where you can find out that you're no longer employed while riding a corporate bus to work in the morning without any warnings or time to prepare.
Can you imagine living here for many years, having a rented house with all the furniture, a car, bank accounts, gym memberships, friend groups, kids enrolled in local schools, and then suddenly being thrown out of the country without even having a chance to liquidate any of it just because Meta or Amazon has just dropped another 10k people layoff and and you're unlucky to be a part of it?
- rayiner 20d agoAren’t most tech companies subject to WARN act requirements of a 60-day notice period before layoffs? As I understand it, you’re technically employed during the period between the termination notice and official end of employment, even though you’re not working.
- foogazi 19d agoWARN is about notifying the state of layoffs, it does not notify the employees
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- hollerith 19d agoSomeone should fix the act's Wikipedia article, then, because it states more than once that employees are entitled to advanced notice.
- gcr 19d agoThat’s not standard practice for USA tech companies. A WARN notice includes text like “such-and-such org headcount to be reduced by 36 by Sep 11,” and doesn’t include specific names. Google bricks your MacBook and revokes your corporate account access the moment they make the decision. You may be notified via personal email if you properly set that up in Workday, otherwise you will have to ask your manager via off-corp channels what happened.