I keep hearing people are being asked to relocate, but I was just notified that I am impacted and was never asked if I would relocate. Anyone else treated that way? All the press keeps stating it’s an “option”
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Wow....first time being surplussed?
Welcome to every quarter in the craft world...
Layoffs have been happening for at least 40 years not just 10 years.
The company has been increasingly wily about keeping layoffs under wraps, so as not to generate headlines like T-Mobile did Friday.
One way to do this was call for "relocation" with conditions very few would accept. The town halls and happy talk were just frosting. The cake is a layoff of senior level, highly paid, long term employees who were "involuntarily relocated" rather than laid off, with all the rule-following that requires.
Be glad you got severance, if you did. No guarantee they won't change those terms for 2024 (our irreplaceable executives are exempted).
There are at least two ways of getting laid off currently One is being offered relocation and turning it down and two just being surplus/ laid off without relocation.
That’s called a lay off. We’ve been having them for ten years now.
Look at your name on this website. Maybe they saw it and said they gotta go.
There are 2 initiatives going on now. First one is to reduce headcount. Impacted are notified and off payroll in 2 weeks. Our org had a 10% reduction in July levels 1-6. Second initiative is the RTO. In that case you may be asked to relocate.
I am sure many were not asked to relocate.
There were many layoffs yesterday that had no connection to RTO.
@gga post could be interpreted as national teams will not have "normal layoffs" (i.e., layoff without option to relocate for job). Of course, that's untrue.
Only national teams were asked to relocate. All other teams are normal layoffs. Your group is obviously not classified as national.