>Effective immediately,
>we strongly recommend planning your migration
Not even a brief period of advance notice to do a migration? Just one day no more security patches...
wth is going on over at intel
>we strongly recommend planning your migration
Not even a brief period of advance notice to do a migration? Just one day no more security patches...
wth is going on over at intel
Thousands of layoffs. It's surprising someone even had time to post the notice.
Being fired for poor performance is all about ample warnings, issuing a PIP, etc. The company wants the employee back on track. Being laid off is a situation that an employee cannot fix with their efforts. There's no incentive to work this week if it is already known that you are going to be laid off next week, but some employees might consider a prank or even minor sabotage as a helpless act of protest. It's safest to dismiss the laid-off ASAP.
Early in my career in the mid 2000s, the startup that was on the same floor as mine laid off a QA person, who then showed up the next day and fatally shot the CEO and head of HR. Our CEO called me and told me not to come in that day.
A separation agreement usually stipulates paying 2-3 months worth of salary, and extending the benefits similarly. I don't see how it is worse than spending a couple of extra weeks in the office, and receiving the same.
(Also note that employees that are harder to lay off also get hired with much more reluctance.)
Collective bargaining could achieve far more than 2-3 months of pay. I've personally seen cases of over double that much pay, reduced numbers of redundancies, sacking a few directors instead of a few workers and in one case even preventing the redundancies entirely by forcing management to reduce other costs.
Of course, you are likely to fare much better if the workplace is already unionised, so join/build a union now!
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intel-job-losses...