Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

This post is in response to the comments about working remote. It's about results, not where people sit. If you're an effective leader, you can lead a global team and don't need to ruin people's work life balance by having them relocate so you can physically see them work. Other than those on the factory floor, most of us at GE are knowledge workers. Treat us with respect and let us work remote or office...long as we deliver, who care where we sit? If GE wants to attract and retain talent, we need to stop this old school thinking!

GE "leaders" are invisible. They have no idea what is really happening . Get out of your meetings, put your cell phone away , get off your tail and learn the business . Talk to the people you are suppose to be leading. Get rid of permissive time off but also the working remote. People taking way more time off than they should. Working remote people are not really working, they are not getting anything done . Get back to basics. Hold people and yourself accountable and do something about low performers. Quit promoting low performing undeserving people. Know who really is top talent and top performers .

Sorry folks but in the next 6 months , there won't be many of you to rack and stack. Sad fact..

But as some of you have pointed out ...time get rid of the leadership layers. The E -band game of building an empire to maintain your status is ridiculous. You know who these folks are ..they build an empire under them to maintain the magic minimum head count even if a 10% RIF is mandated from up top. This is done to maintain their status of E - Band. Why , cause they want the stock options and company car.

The ratings system wasnt perfect and was subjective per the individual doing your review, however, it did give a method to determine who the bottom of the barrel is, as opposed to how it is today with glib comments and everyone whistling rainbows

Suggestion #1. Cost cutting initiative - instead of continuing to layoff the people who really do the work, cut the number of company officers by 50-75%: why do we need 197 of them? They are so far removed from the floor they have no idea what is going on or what people do.

Suggestion #2. Get to work delivering on the $270 Billion backlog. Or is this a line of BS as well?

Suggestion #3. Aggressively collect $$ owed from customers for products delivered and services rendered...why is GE not doing this?

Suggestion #4. Hold management accountable for following the same integrity rules as those below them...I have seen behaviors indicative of different rules for different management levels. Especially EB and above.

Eliminate unlimited paid time off. Keep it unlimited, but make it unpaid. There's no reason to pay people to not be at work.

Completely agree!

Eliminate GGO and cut Product Line in Power Services by 80-90% they are both duplicative and non-value add. Time to get back to operational basics (101)...need only people adding value to win work and execute.

Bravo