I would imagine some will be asked to return when the red flags start flying. New college hires take time and backfilling is not that simple. I believe this was just a big HR debacle. If you are asked to return before Feb 28th think clearly of what you want to do for a company that may of just gotten rid of you based on nothing more then numbers. It seems your local management really had no say so in who stayed or who went. So bow you keep your too performers in that environment is beyond me.
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My boss really had no idea what I did. Their work was so poor he once copied a review from another employee forgot to change the name and inserted it onto my cap. Many other mistakes they would make and I feel for my team. After 20+ years I was laid off the other day in the midst of a veterinarian emergency of which HR knew I was still called in that day. I lost a job and an animal in 24 hours. I will rebuild myself. This has been extremely hard on me. I have taken a lot of abuse working for the company what's done is done.
Most will need to secure gainful employment long before GM ever begins re-hiring. At that point, would you really be willing to leave your NEW job to be re-hired by these people? Could anyone possibly find any happiness or satisfaction in that?
They always bring people back. All the time regardless of a big layoff. Bottom line if they need you they will call. This was not a middle management call, we ridded our team of all in Canada and then another select few. That says it was upper management and HR. We also lost 2 people that were more valuable than 6 that were kept. Problem is we don’t know. If your team was hurting for resources before the layoff, then they will surely be hurting afterwards. It was all a numbers game. Im not saying 4300 people will be brought back. But there are usually some in key areas or possible moves to another team needing your talents.
2009 was the last big layoff and then they brought a whole company over. That is a bad example. If things go red and they realize your valuable to correcting that, they will bring you back. But do you wait for that??? Probanly not. It was a bad process over all, even my manager did not know the extent of what I did. If you do not have enough quality people to perform a job ... you find them. Honestly i believw this process was so bad because management was not involved to save the people they knew were valuable. But what do i know.. it was so secretive. Keep ur heads up all
The only time they brought people back was after the 2009 bankruptcy layoffs.
The ones before, no one cut ever came back.
I doubt any of those laid off now will return.
My manager was let go too. So no one is left who even knows what I was working on. They took our laptops to be erased. No training, no handoff of assignments. Documents lost. Complete waste of time for those who sat around waiting for a manager to come for them.
GM could not have done a worse job.
That manager is gone now to.
You can be pretty sure that your manager had a say.
If they want you they will find a readon to get you back. That may be foolhardy optimism. But hey
Sorry for the grammar lol