Is it just my group?
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Of course there is an increase company wide and they know it too! Thos is why there pushing mental health wellness on teamwork the last several months.
Go ahead and explore it. They can’t do a damn thing about it.
It certainly seems like a smart strategy. I am sure it is not difficult to find a doctor to sign off on it and buy yourself a year or so to look for other opportunities and brush up on your skills. After that you may or may not be laid-off. Sounds like a win win.
This sh&tshow will cause all kinds of health related issues
I am a strong person and have been through incredible amounts of change and have always looked at it as an opportunity—right now all I can say after 20+ years is that I feel hopeless and completely numb— I have a 100% reason to go on disability but I know that will be the end of my career (so I hide it with a smile on my face) and I can’t help but wonder if staying and working will at least provide for my family in the event something happens to me—if I lose my job or get put on a PIP and get fired, they will have nothing! I have continued to be an exceeds expectation performer BUT it has come at a cost! I know I am not the only one and I worry so much about our employees mental health with all these mind games and scare tactics—
I've definitely noticed more people on leave in the last year or two than I did for my first eight years at the company. It used to be a rarity.
Leave of absence improves your probability of being laid-off?
In our team, one person was just abusing it. She was lazy, she got bad review. She claimed short term disability and was getting paid for it. Then she continued going on leave of absence. Finally, they laid her off.
Bad review…PIP….employee pulls this lever to buy additional time to mentally recover or hopefully find a new job. Everyone else gets to double up on the residual work. It’s brutal for everyone, so it makes sense that additional employees trickle to take leave.
I have seen this happen, and the manager takes this leave time to build a stronger case on the employee for termination.
I have noticed this too. I know at least 3 people out (2 director level or above) on this type of leave now. Doesn’t there have to be a doctors note? This can’t be this easy to get approved.
Not just your group. All the over working and great people leaving, people are breaking fast.
This is how you know it's working.
Many of us are considering it. It's the only escape hatch these days, w/o outright quitting.
Not just your group.
I am not at all surprised if there is an actual increase across WF. It IS a toxic workplace. Shuffled from team to team, reallocated to roles you weren’t hired for, management push to stack rank and rate NI, constant threat and worry of displacement every other week and that doesn’t even cover the broken processes that execs are not at all concerned with fixing. This company is a disaster and CS is a horrible leader.
It does seem to happen more and more
I've thought about doing this more than once. No way it's only your group.
Honestly, I think more and more people are starting to abuse it. Management is oblivious and doesn't seem to care. All the work just gets they redistributed to the shmucks left behind holding the bag.