February: Tech Layoffs, Overcoming Challenges to SWP, and a No-travel Required Tour
Article: Let's Talk About Layoffs
Alicia Roach takes a hard look at how many organizations treat the planning of their people.
Excerpt: Seeing this headline really hit me hard:
Meta, Amazon surge by $270bn as cost cuts cheer investors
If we live in a world where the headlines are "cost cuts cheer investors" - so people are CHEERING when other people have lost their jobs [that are the bulk of said cost cuts], then something has gone very, very wrong.
Let me be clear up front.? I do not believe that layoffs should NEVER happen.? But I do believe that they should definitely happen way, way, way (way) less.? It seems as though every day there is a news headline, LinkedIn post or email bulletin announcing the latest org with its round of workforce reductions.? In the tech space alone, this is translating into approximately 1,200 people that lose their jobs EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.? So every day, 1,200 humans find their whole world shaken up, and IMHO that could be, and should be, not the case.
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1 年Alicia Roach great thoughts here. Too often, organizations from the Board down talk about being stewards of their workforce but fall into the same old operational, business as usual cadence. The failure to link strategic objectives to long term workforce need, often results in the hire / fire merry go round. Organizational leaders need to give their direct reports the mandate to think more strategically about their workforce and support this through ensuring the right processes, tools and change management is in place. Simple steps that can yield the value of longer term workforce planning
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