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[DVDR_Dog]

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For the looks of it, times aren't well in the IT industry on the left coast.

 

[Hotrod369]

I'm hearing that JP Morgan Chase is laying off over 3k employees. When the banks are trimming the fat you know it's getting bad.

 

[DVDR_Dog]

I starting to suspect this remote work from home has allowed companies to assess the quality and quantity of actual work being done and the value of their contribution to their employer from an isolated environment. Depending on your perspective it's either a good thing or a bad thing. Unfortunately it allows the bean counters to micro-manage and make recommendations and dismiss employees that result in a short term bump in profits while the companies reputation swirls the drain.
So somewhere in-between head chopping or cutting some dead wood. For those of us who worked in a larger company, if you remember Pre-Covid days there were always those people you worked with who's biggest effort in the work day was kissing some rear end and hiding out the rest of the day. In defense of the employer, if your competition is intelligently using this new data to trim the workforce and use some of those savings to reward their productive workers it's a win win. For the ones that do get cut, perhaps there is a lesson to learn. If you feel you were wrongly terminated, it's best you move on from this unfair workplace.

 

[Hotrod369]

You summed it up pretty well.