Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Best Practices - Layoffs

In the spirit of sharing (and adopting) best practices, i recently came across a best practice that might help facilitate the next round of layoffs and wanted to share it with fellow supervisors and managers.

The CEO of better discovered a very efficient (and practical) way to handle these types of situations. At EM, we’ve been meeting 1:1 with individuals getting laid off to explain the process and talk through their situation. By the 3rd layoff, i found myself just saying the same thing over and over again. Realizing this is a waste of time, and in turn, a waste of shareholder value, i began researching better ways to go about these layoffs

I recently found an article about the CEO of Better utilizing an extremely efficient approach to conducting layoffs. He was able to successfully reduce head count by 900 people on just 1 zoom call. I will be following this best practice for the next round of layoffs and wanted to share the best practice with my fellow colleagues

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Glad you enjoyed DC on both ends and ride through PNG. Excellent.

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Post ID: @3rpx+1fGBlcfp

DC enjoyed me so much since our outing on poydras, rode her coattails through PNG and onward! I love this company. Enjoy both ends

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Post ID: @3pxa+1fGBlcfp

Just invite an employee (even those who have been with the company long term, well ranked, told all these years that they have done great job) over a Zoom call and coldly tell them how they just became a bad employee overnight that they are no longer a good fit for company, their skills are no longer (overnight) valued, and their past ranking didn't matter and therefore they are chosen to be laid off or pipped!

An employee who was forced to change assignments every few years without having much say in their next assignment and an environment where if they say "no" to an assignment they would jeopardize their long term career prospects. After going through all of this bu-----t, the employee works hard, does the best, have develops versatility to move in and have demonstrated succees n various parts of the company, and all it takes is one Zoom call by manager to tell them that they are not worth to be employed and get thrown away. Can the MC, their minions, managers, and supervisors even think how hypocritical is this when the person was hired by selling the career to them if they worked hard and performed well across business line and you tell them they are worthless to company overnight while those upline bosses are to one's that contributed to the mistakes and losses and would be rewarded for their mistakes, instead of first ones to go out.

This is ExxonMobil for those that keep singing WeAreExxonMobil! Yes and Yes this is YourExxonMobil and you are 4kingExxonMobil.

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Post ID: @3wyh+1fGBlcfp

I know one Supervisor that had zero input into who got fired, then was instructed to fire 75% of his team/coworkers/friends.

Layoffs can be life altering for the person required to deliver the messages.

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Post ID: @qgr+1fGBlcfp

When your the hit man you always have too wonder when will my day come and it will come trust me.

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