Remember it is your manager making the decision if you're being LR'd or not, HR lackeys are only messengers or running dogs of your managers.
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There’s no problem with workers at Cisco, they got better offers outside of Cisco. Problem is incompetent management.
Not entirely unlike Stockholm syndrome, the average worker bee at Cisco blindly follows incompetent management and after a surprisingly short period of time begins to think that's how things should be done.
This isn’t 2020, white women isn’t diversity. Especially nice upper middle class ones that all went to Ivy League schools.
Why would anyone want to work in HR at Cisco? Their only job is managing the never-ending layoffs. That's about as rewarding and well-thought of as being the executioner or the tax collector.
@yqw+1qtLJy0r, didn't you know that most of HR doesn't even work for Cisco? Other than Fran and the HR leadership who sets the policies and directions on where HR matters are going, the day-to-day HR work is handled by an outsourced vendor. You probably won't believe me when I say it's Xerox! I had to deal w/ an HR issue that wasn't payroll, benefits, etc. related and I had to send the HR rep who was assigned my case some documentation to their "work" email address and it was an @ xerox(dot)com domain. I had to question them about it since they called my work # out of the blue and started asking me questions about my HR case, and I was worried that it was a phishing attempt because they didn't have an "at" cisco(dot)com email address.
As far as managing the never-ending layoffs goes, Fran always seems to be smiling and very happy as she talks about how the LR's at Cisco are carefully considered and transparent, but that they're necessary. She seems to get a lot of satisfaction know that her decisions, as well as those of the other ELT and product/BU leaders, have real impacts to people and their families as Cisco decides to let them go just to cut costs temporarily while they put stuff on hold long enough to rehire after an appropriate interval.
There’s no problem with workers at Cisco, they got better offers outside of Cisco. Problem is incompetent management.
Why would anyone want to work in HR at Cisco? Their only job is managing the never-ending layoffs. That's about as rewarding and well-thought of as being the executioner or the tax collector.
There’s nothing to sell at Cisco, no real customers want yo buy into Cisco, no difference between top and bottom performers.
Who’s believing in Cisco portfolio these days?
Poor performers you know the drill.