The statement should read "We saw the "day in the life" video, we know you were not doing enough work so now we are reducing head count because clearly you have too much free time"
Also, if so, do you really think that reducing force means reducing force were it's appropriate (triming true fat)?
All the companies are doing is to take the opportunity to save cost because everyone does, and because these companies can obviously survive.
They hired to keep in line with trends and now they fire for the same reason.
Yes, employers are not babysitters, nor charities. There seems to have been a large number of bloat position where people simply mess around all day, an maybe attend a few meetings were they talk about working.... then pass the results of that meeting to another group to actually do work...
This is not a new concept, "middle management" style problems except in this case instead of have 5 people managers for every 1 worker, you end up with 5 "project managers" for ever 1 worker... same result too many people talking about work and not enough people actually doing work
>>Also, if so, do you really think that reducing force means reducing force were it's appropriate (triming true fat)?
Maybe, maybe not. Organizations are often prevented from simply trimming "true fat" due to regulations and other things that means layoffs have to occur in a more broad way. Overtime it will even out but the initial cut will probably not be that precise.
And you ascertained that from…a video on TikTok?