I hear a lot of conflicting opinions.
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It depends but it some cases and depending on the position, it can be last in so first out. In other positions, it won't be about tenure at all but whether the position is too duplicative or doesn't fit as well with a re-org.
Every leadership had a say!!
Some use it to their advantage 1000%.
I'm a manager and was rated very highly on my reviews, so I'm not buying that it was based on performance. In my department, I think it came down to bottom line and politics.
Depends on dept. in mine the VP asked the manager and he picked an easy one. Someone that was already retiring.
Director here, the VP asked me to rank my team from good to bad in terms of performance. The bottom 3 were let go.
32+ make these decisions
I am a Director that was impacted last week and I tell you the VP of our area did not know who was impacted until the night before. For our team decisions were made at the ELT level.
I asked in detail how this works and my director said the VP will come to him and ask for low hanging fruit. He then told me we are already at our base line for operating and we are fine. Whether or not any of that’s true I don’t know
From what I can tell it's decided by VP and up. For the layoffs I'm close to it does appear to be performance based. Not that all those were laid off were bad employees, most i know of were pretty solid, just marginally not as good as their peers.
So for those of you that manage teams and didn't have any say in this, if someone on your team was chosen for you, was it based upon performance review rating or the specific role they held?
So… who is it coming from? VP? Ceo? He?
My manager acts like she has all the power
I'm a director and has no say or knowledge of the layoff until the morning of. This was in E&I.
Manager here - the answer is not much. At best the say is inadvertent because you rated someone lower on the performance review without knowledge of how that would be used. I don't think even my director had any input into who specifically would be targeted.
Supervisors have a say in certain departments.