Yahoo’s sensitive approach to redundancy
The following link shows how Yahoo sensitively plans to deal with making 1500 people redundant today. It reminds me of a certain company that I worked for back in 2002 which made everyone sit at their desks whilst it emailed those who were fired, who then had to get up and walk through the open plan office and leave the building immediately. It was so badly thought out it defied belief. Amazingly a couple of months before they had just employed a HR manager. Obviously from the Attila The Hun school of Human Resource Management. It was like the Purges. But of course, these things have a funny way of coming back around – in the end, all those who masterminded this wonderful process themselves were fired later on.
Sad times for those in the firing line.
