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1) D&B does have a lot of fat. Taking large conference rooms and turning them into personal offices is the perfect example of “fat”
2) There isn’t a single employee who wasn’t hired to serve some justified business need. It might be fair to say that the needs have changed, but it’s wrong to trash loyal employees now in order to justify the cuts.
3) Cutting the severance before a round of layoffs is just dishonorable. It’s a low blow and everybody knows it. All the billboards in the world won’t help the damage that will be done to the company’s reputation and how they treat employees.
4) Actions always speak louder than words.
Fact Check - Loads of qualified, skilled, hardworking and yes LOYAL employees were made redundant over the last 6 months. As Tom Manning said, this is typical McKinsey Playbook. Some companies do it in one full sweep. Others are disorganized and created the fear culture (not surprising as most are military men) to prompt people to seek employment elsewhere. TO the writer that suggest not checking boards, like this one : Why were you checking ? Either testing the temperature of the water or to see if your name mentioned. Either way, no need to comment. Thank you to everyone else for sharing insight and observations
Those concerned about layoffs, while no one is safe, take a look around you. Are you the weakest link or are there other co-workers with larger performance issues? Personally I feel pretty confident that I will not be in this round. Then again who really know? If you are scouring the Internet gossip boards looking for inside info because you are concerned about your job or potential job loss, maybe just maybe you should focus on actually doing your job and doing it better than your fellow co-worker as to give a reason why you should still be employed. All they are doing is cutting the fat and there is A LOT of fat at DNB across ALL departments.
The big difference is the severance package. It is wishful thinking to believe that the majority of the layoffs under the new management occurred prior to them cutting the severance package. They saved the biggest cuts for now (after), when they can save half the money.
I mean, when was the last week that there were NOT layoffs? (Honest question.)
Like preferably before lunch****