The rule is in place so that they have a leg to stand on for letting people go with cause. When good workers don’t show up, they might get a performance improvement plan, but their managers will find a way to not enforce it. When the rest of the workforce doesn’t show up, those folks will be let go.
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noahm@lemmy.world 10 months agoI doubt it. When companies lay people off, they want to be able to choose who they let go. They don’t have that choice here. No well-managed company will value “works in the office” over “gets shit done”.
darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Have you ever experienced a layoff? I have. They are usually very random. Higher ups rarely have any idea who should be kept and who should be let go.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
It is less random than you think.
Total head count is usually decided by senior management, who may either order cuts across the board or target certain parts of the company.
After that, a process gets chosen to pick who goes. They may target a specific level of staff, go based on a set of internal metrics including seniority, or even let lower level managers get input on the decision.
It is rarely the CEO directly telling people who should be fired, but it isn’t like they just pull names from a hat.
masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Seniour leadership usually has no idea which teams are needed and which ones are not.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
But it isn’t random.