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The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.
Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.
If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.
I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.
@matdevdug disposables much?
The problem with this argument is that for huge companies like Google, Microsoft, et al, there will always be a large turnover of staff and a ready supply of starry-eyed potential recruits.
Those potential recruits, wanting to flesh out and improve their CVs with "prestige" employment, are the ideal clay with which to mould a compliant and motivated (out of fear, mainly) workforce.
So the main issue for the company is not lack of motivation but lack of continuity and experience. These factors, of course, lead to a lack of real progress and the repetition of past mistakes.