‘Arm lays off 15 percent of staff after failed Nvidia takeover’ – IT Pro – News

Black and white. You don’t necessarily get efficiency by firing people. The reality is that often more work has to be done by fewer people, which often does not benefit the quality.

True† An element that is also often underestimated by management is that in a forced reorganization (with layoffs), the so-called drag effect of employees, who leave voluntarily in the wake of the redundancies, is grossly underestimated. With often disastrous consequences, for current projects, the general level of knowledge and the reputation of the company. I’ve experienced this myself twice now and recently again with a friend of mine who lost his job.

In the meantime, the reality is that measures such as outsourcing, in which a lot of staff are also laid off in favor of a club that would work more efficiently, often results in less efficiency.

As far as I know, outsourcing is rarely done to increase efficiency, only to reduce labor costs and ‘flexibilize’ the deployable FTEs. Although you could call the latter somewhat euphemistically ‘economic efficiency’.

Although the top would rarely admit it, after all the credits, promotions and bonuses have been taken for efficiently managing the company. And today people are trying to recruit internal staff like horses without a head. efficient.

Yup. Typical for the last reorganization I experienced myself was that when the (ultimate) responsible director himself moved on after a year in the food chain career ladder of the parent company, he was really not wished success by anyone from my old employer circle (150+ FTEs) via LinkedIn.

[Reactie gewijzigd door RRRobert op 15 maart 2022 08:50]

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