What are your thoughts?
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oh Are we suppose to be productive? I gotta use up all my sick, personal and comp days before the lay-off. Oh and all my earned vacation days. After that well gotta catch up at the water cooler and find someone to action my request tickets. Then I need to navigate the land mines my coworkers have laid and pull the knives out of my back. Oh it is quitting time? SSDD tomorrow.
This sounds like a question from the scumbag media.
Note that the whole SRD process has nothing to do with improving the way we work. It's all about showing Wall Street that we have a plan, even though the truth is that it's really just window dressing.
It's easy enough to distract the Wall Street analysts though...add in enough buzzwords about streamlining, bureaucracy reduction, and such...they'll be eating out of Hackett's hand.
Is this a real question? One minute of googling will show you study upon study stating that layoffs don't help senior leaders reach their goals, layoffs cause more harm than good, and the long term effects of layoffs are not worth whatever short term cost cuts they're trying to achieve.
Here's what just one study concluded:
"The literature provides strong evidence to suggest that organizational restructuring can have a profound effect on levels of employee morale, as demonstrated by the potential loss of loyalty and trust in the organisation, feelings of insecurity,
the implementation of seemingly unfair downsizing processes and confusion over roles and expectations. Failure to effectively communicate direction and ensure legitimate, ongoing opportunities for staff to be actively engaged in the process of restructuring, and ensure transparency of decision making can damage the relationship between employers and
employees, reducing the employee morale.
The outcomes of this research are evident with low levels of trust in management, continued feelings of job insecurity and resentment over the way in which the restructuring process was both planned and implemented. Staff feels strongly
that there was insufficient involvement in the decision making process and that the views of staff were largely ignored. Feedback was considered inadequate. Despite surviving the restructure many staff do not feel the organisation values
them or their contribution. The result shows employee morale has dropped significantly post restructure."
Having the black cloud of doom over your head for months doesn't motivate people to work harder.
A lot of time is now spent speculating on the outcome, discussing the latest rumors, and planning for possible separation.
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