1. Be honest. Help people understand why company is laying off and why it is them.  
  
 2. Negotiate with management on their behalf to buy them layoff benefits (insurance, notice pay etc.) 
  
 3. Work with all departments involved in exit operations to ensure that people have swift and respectful exit. 
  
 4. Offer them support in personal capacity (recommendations, referrals in your circle etc.).  
  
 —— 
  
 Don’t stress much about it. It is part of you people management role you signed up for. Nothing personal for you to feel bad.  
  
 Takeaway for you as manager— before you hire next time, be doubly sure why you need to create a role and what value will this role add. Just don’t be a yes-man to management in good times, else you need to play yes man role in bad times also.

Business Analyst

Need to do one next week... Feeling like shit... So I'm hoping to learn from others experience here

Software Engineer

Good rule of thumb is to be honest so it doesn’t wreck ur conscience

Call the candidate the same day as of layoff. Tell that you are with him / her on this until he/she gets a new job. Keep checking in every 2-3 days and refer the candidate wherever you can.. 
  
 The only thing that you can do is to not make the candidate feel that it was her mistake that she got laid off

Product Manager

Checking if there is anyone here who has had to layoff people... How did you do take it mentally and emotionally? Looking for answers from middle managers and HR folks who have to execute decisions...

Checking if there is anyone here who has had to layoff people... How did you do take it mentally and emotionally? Looking for answers from middle managers and HR folks who have to execute decisions taken by others.

Manager doing layoff

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How the HRs react if you tell them you were laid off, please share your experience?

Also, what other reason we can give for looking out for change in less than 5 months?

Do you folks tell about layoff to HRs

After there was a layoff at your company
1- Impacted by layoff : Did your manager/team mates connect with you to keep you motivated?
2- The ones not impacted - Did your leadership/manager set up a team call to explain the reason for layoff and remove the fear/uncertainty that the rest of the people are safe.

What did it tell you about the higher management of the company?

What did your manager/leadership do?

Although you become the face of layoffs and you have to abide by what's instructed, how do you personally feel after a event like mass layoff?

What steps do you take to avoid or minimise the impact in such cases?

HRs how do you feel after layoffs?

Product Owner

What are generally the metrics used during layoffs ?

Is it division by division or each employee is vetted for his performance and contributions ?

Do high salaried folks generally targeted even if they have good performance and history with company ?

With the overall bleak atmosphere in startup ecosystem and lack of transparency in this process from employers wanted to know how are decisions made. Most say it is performance based in news, how true is that ?

Layoff Parameters

From my last poll, good amount  ppl were in senior management, who might have faced this once in their life and ended up in one of the following situation, I might get promoted to a leadership role,  God forbid If I end up in this situation how do I handle.

Few cases I want to outline
1. Company messed up and I am just the messenger
2. I messed up and I want to save my own skin, I would rather own and resign but you never know, depending on situations ppl throw others under the bus.
3. The employee messed up big time and there is no turning around the things.
4. All good but there is no growth for the employee to grow further and have to inform, this place might not provide you the runway, to grow further start looking out.

Point 2, I don't think I will end up doing it, but can't comment office politics might influence me as I scale up in my role and I might end up doing things which are not aligned to my ethics and principles

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Thought I will make this revelation. Smart Managers deliberately continue to keep ordinary people in their team and these people are given a decent hike too so that they can stay in the company until there is a layoff scenario. This generally happens with product based companies that undergo periodic layoffs regardless of economic slowdown.

So if you are an ordinary employee & continue to get encouraging feedback from your manager plus a decent hike every year, beware! This might be a smart-trap laid by your manager.

Managers deliberately keep non performing employees to use them in a layoff scenario.

Software Architect

Last December there were planned layoffs at Cisco which was known to everyone in advance along with the dates and the percentage of people to be laid off. This seemed fair at the time.

Now they have laid off people on a random Monday with no prior information or any talks in the company about the same, managers just told that people who are affected have been informed and not to spread rumours, etc (all managers lingo).

Most people were in a higher position in Tech and PMs(as per what I have heard), but surprisingly the managers were not involved and no one knows the criteria of layoff(upper execs did the layoffs). The performance issue was not the cause(confirmed by the manager) then what is the criteria?

Does anyone here have any idea what these people see when they do the layoffs? Assuming the project is still on, and the person did not have any performance issues? I am curious.

FYI - I wasn't affected (luckily).

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Someone in ur team or someone u had good relationship (work wise) with gets laid off? Do u discontinue working as hard? Does ur team velocity decrease or increase as everyone does better for survival?
Just wanna hear from folks who have gone through this and does employer not see any affect in work? (E.g. Twitter case)

With all the layoffs news, how do u cope when…

I've been sensing some uncertainty at my workplace, and it's making me think about preparing for the possibility of layoffs. 

1. How does one manage uncertainty before a layoff, and what should be the mindset?

2. What practical steps do you take financially ? Any insights on budgeting? 

3. In a job transition, how do you proactively develop skills while managing work 

I would like to hear your thoughts and advice on how to be well-prepared mentally, financially, and skill-wise for possiblity of layoffs

How to prepare for a layoff ?

Software Developer

Housing.com (REA India) ranked 3rd in the GPTW survey this year. They provide several awesome perks like, laying off without any notice, fucking their reviews just so that they could justify the lay offs, and threatening actions if anything came out on social media. 

10-15% of the whole tech team was laid off (mostly freshers) apparently on the basis of low performance.  It was all carried out by the higher management, not even the managers had any clue about the lay off happening. 

The performance rating was rigged by the higher management who had no interaction with the tech people. They had this awesome idea of getting reviewed by people who we had never interacted with. Managers were merely bystanders who had no say in the performance review whatsoever. 


PS: A note for the management -->
Housing.com would be an employee friendly company only if you guys would give two fucks about employees, instead of Caring so much about the GPTW ranking like conducting hands on sessions and literally forcing people to put in good rating.

Mass Lay-offs at housing.com (REA India)

The rigged performance rating and the secrecy is so true. I got to know about my colleague getting fired when I opened his slack which was deactivated. Upon calling, he said it was all done in 5 mins, Forceful resignation, No Severance and was asked to post nothing on social media.  
  
 From my team alone 2 people have been laid off both freshers.

I recently laid off, sometime ago. I was privileged enough so didn't really complained about it. But what i realised is:

"Everyone should get laid off once in a lifetime." Reason being you stop being emotional about your job. Some people have a habit to treat job as a the only purpose their life has. Basically job gives them the validation which they never received from anyone.  
Also you realize the hard truth that you are just a number. "Resource" as they aptly call you.

You realize your life has many dimensions than just serving someone. 

Quite an experience i would say, Kuch din to guzariyen lay offs mein!

Layoffs Pros

1-on-1s getting scheduled by end of day, 3-month severance, just announced.

Swiggy lays off 380 in emergency townhall

How easy or difficult are devs and PMs finding it to get a job post layoff? Is the experience different across YoE?

Handling layoffs

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Got a job but now got another offer at 80% hike. What’s the best excuse to leave the job?

Best excuse to leave job within a month?

Don't give an excuse, have an honest conversation. Believe it or not, Honesty is the policy, even in these times

UX/UI Designer

What was the first sign that your company might be doing layoffs? 
Was it a random meeting addressed by CEO or some other shit?

What was the first sign of layoff?

We are seeing news of lay-offs from many companies- in India as well as RoW; Being at the receiving end of it is utterly painful. But who is to blame? 

Hindsight is always 20/20; So in the current moment, we can go about and blame the management for overhiring and now firing.

But since a lot us would get into similar shoes over time, would love to know how others would have done it differently.

When the market was kind and capital was cheap, companies/functions/leaders wanted to experiment with every or more ideas having some potential. They wanted to test every market (in terms of geo expansion) and if they wouldn’t competitors would. Definitely some experiments become successful while some fail. There would have been a pressure from Investors which would have translated to internal pressures.

Even most of us were just shifting jobs for money without even having conviction in business models of companies we were joining.

Who to blame? Investors for seeking growth or CEOs to not have enough hindsight or experience to know such times will come or functional leaders to comply to wishes of their management? Or us to fall into unsustainable greed trap?

But now it is about survival. Cutting off vestigial or infected organs vs letting the whole org die. What would you have done differently in the shoes of these CEOs?

What would you do in similar position?

Who will decide the layoff guys managers or the above ones🙂

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Would like to know the mindset of employees who got saved. Like to know what goes inside your head. How do you deal with this situation as it can happen with who got saved somehow, etc etc

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