They've used it as an opportunity to make 30% of their mobile engineers redundant, as well as push many senior engineers on higher salaries towards the exit
If they thought their senior engineers were getting paid too much, what was stopping them from cutting their salaries before the pandemic?
I imagine, for a manager to get rid of someone on performance grounds needs heck a lot more work and time than getting on the company wide blanket firing bandwagon.
"We hate to let you go but we have no options in these challenging times" gets less opposition from employees and more legal stance over any performance related reason.
Sad.
My sister is a doctor. She told me that she is getting less patients, as only those are very serious, are coming.
Plus transport system is down, so only ambulance can be used for transporting patients to and from hospital. So this puts a limit to hospital's income source.