Your tips harken back to an era when layoff really did mean temporary cash flow problem.
Thanks for the nostalgia! Now if we could just inject "humane" into "human resources".
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Back in '96 I worked for a company that spent 6 months doing a transition to another state. My whole department was kept in the loop every step of the way. Offered re-locations, when those were not wanted, offered reasonable severance packages, job placement help, the works. The next time I got laid off was the abrupt way the article described. Guess which one I liked better?!
There is no such thing as a humane layoff. That is like saying a chicken is humanely killed (no such thing.)
: marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals
Thus I beg to differ with your assertion that there is no such thing as a humane layoff. Having been laid off before I can most certainly affirm that there is a humane and an inhumane way to go about it...
Thus I beg to differ with your assertion that there is no such thing as a humane layoff. Having been laid off before I can most certainly affirm that there is a humane and an inhumane way to go about it...
I've been at employers where they let it be known that if anyone wanted to discuss a package it would be available. That gives some employees control over the situation.
I've seen "good" and "bad" layoffs. I've been laid off, and I have laid staff off. It can be done in an organized fashion and done in a way that attempts to minimize the trauma involved in the event. At one place, my supervisor escorted me to my office, and even carried boxes to my car, instead of asking security to do it. We still keep in touch ten years later.
I've seen "good" and "bad" layoffs. I've been laid off, and I have laid staff off. It can be done in an organized fashion and done in a way that attempts to minimize the trauma involved in the event. At one place, my supervisor escorted me to my office, and even carried boxes to my car, instead of asking security to do it. We still keep in touch ten years later.
Last time I got laid off it was the no notice, brutal, here's an off site luncheon and here are your pink slips. While there had been some unofficial rumors a few weeks earlier, many of us were told that we had nothing to worry about, we were safe.
Obviously that company lied to us. Any company that does that, even if they present a semi-decent severance package, doesn't deserve any loyalty. And it can be argued that any non-disclosure agreements are null and void. After all, whatever you know has no value to that company anymore, otherwise they wouldn't have fired you.
Obviously that company lied to us. Any company that does that, even if they present a semi-decent severance package, doesn't deserve any loyalty. And it can be argued that any non-disclosure agreements are null and void. After all, whatever you know has no value to that company anymore, otherwise they wouldn't have fired you.
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