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Laid-Off Talent Is Not “Poor Performing” Talent
In fact, when mass layoffs take place, performance is not even taken into consideration.
You’ve probably seen the news already: Tech companies are letting employees go by the thousands (thousands!), dismantling full teams, and treating their current and former employees as if they were disposable.
We’ve seen it all. Companies denying computer access to their employees; personal-email notifications sent just a few minutes before the day started; massive Zoom calls with un-prepared Business Leaders reading from a script; and even phone calls right before someone’s scheduled surgery.
And with that, we are already seeing Business Leaders justifying those decisions and implying that those (former) employees were poor performers!
That logic is faulty on so many levels! And in most cases, it’s meant just as a distraction! So, I’ll try to break down what this messaging really means and why this logic doesn’t really make any sense.
Do you *really* think that a company has thousands (thousands!) of poor performers at any given time?
How does a multi-billion company even operate if a large percentage of its workforce just…
