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    Employee urges coworkers not to work harder after layoffs: 'Draw healthy work-life boundaries.'

    This is a great life lesson for everyone: don't work harder just because your company chose to fire all your talented coworkers

    Ain't no such thing as company loyalty anymore. 

    It doesn't matter if you've worked somewhere for 5 minutes or 15 years, because in your boss's eyes, you're expendable. A number on a spreadsheet. And if the right numbers aren't going up, employees will be taking the fall. 

    Higher-ups would rather fire workers every day of the week rather than ever take a pay cut. I mean, a lot of C-suite workers make millions of dollars each year, while the workers who make their company rich are making like, $75k. It's all quite unfair, and this person is urging workers not to break their spirits by overworking just to correct an error that a rich CEO could've prevented. 

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      Office worker puts on a brave face, knowing she's soon going to be asked to over-perform for no extra money.
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      Office worker puts on a brave face, knowing she's soon going to be asked to over-perform for no extra money.

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      For those who survived - do not push yourself to work harder to mitigate the impact of reduced headcount

      Our team had a sync up with Sr Director who mentioned that going forward we would need to ramp up our efficiency to make up for the reduced headcount,
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      stretch ourselves a little to meet the committed deliverables yadda yadda. Basically signalling who is left behind needs to pick up the slack of
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      those who were let go. Do not, i repeat do not give even an hour extra of what you would usually give to work. Draw
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      healthy work-life boundaries, go completely offline post office hours, and do not overburden yourself with others' work.
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      This whole fiasco was neither your fault nor of those who left. If you will stretch yourselves to meet the committed targets, to make things work
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      as they used to even before, it will send a signal to your management chain, that this was in fact all for good, and probably there is
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      Worker decides not to work harder just because her coworkers have been fired.
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      Worker decides not to work harder just because her coworkers have been fired. 

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      scope to squeeze out a few more cost cutting measures in the future. If deadlines are not honoured so let it be. Customer SLAs
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      breached? Cost of doing layoffs. Basically the middle management should feel the burn. Let the projects fail or delay, and let them get embarrassed in front
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      of their bosses. Best case scenario - you might get a few new hires eventually to ease out your burden. I'm not even saying to actively sabotage anything.
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      Just work as many hours as you're comfortable, or you used to before the layoffs. It's high time that management pays the price for these decisions.
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      Also if you think doing so puts you at risk of lad off the next cycle - open your eyes.
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      High performers, experienced architects - no one was spared, at the end of the day you're just a number in the sheet. If the management
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      decides to let you go, it won't matter how much your team or your manager is dependent on you or your impact, you will be let go.
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    • This person's advice might sound harsh, but I think it's just going to become more important, and ring truer, the longer that time goes on. 

      The bigwigs making decisions at these companies seem happy to make sweeping cuts to their workforce without considering the long-term consequences. And they should consider them! 

      But I think many people who make it to that top level of management are only thinking about themselves, and lining their own pockets. They're thinking about their family's trip to somewhere tropical, and they're not thinking about how their company will be doing in 10 years. It's all super selfish, and I hope that this style of management doesn't last much longer. It's just not good for anyone except the selfish CEO who took someone else's salary at the expense of every other worker. 

      So yeah, this person is right: don't reward that behavior. Make these senior level workers sit face to face with their own decisions. Oh no, there aren't enough workers to do the job because you fired them all? What a silly decision. What are you gonna do now, huh? 

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      Tech worker discovering mass layoffs.
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      Tech worker discovering mass layoffs.

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