I know my direct manager has no impact on these decisions and just enforces the orders that come from above. In what tier of management is this decision made and what criteria do they use? It can’t bee as simple as we think that whoever has a bigger paycheck and more years at tho company is first on the chopping block.
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MW is the one who gets the most pleasure from a layoff so guaranteed he's involved in some way. Needs to see who's life he's ruined in person.
SR provides the guideline numbers, first-level managers are allowed "input", but it's the BU heads and functional GMs who sign off on it.
To be clear Wells Manager for the BU.
So GOM / MCBU wells manager. And then the SLT for that group. TL have some influence but not a lot.
If you were in wells it would be the wells manager in that BU with input from LT