Manager doing layoff

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?

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?

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?

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

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 ?

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.

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).

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

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)

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