Redundancy – The Signs
The Signs
If any of the following apply to you, then you may or your organisation may soon be involved in redundancy situations (not shown in any particular order)
Personal
- Your annual pay review is postponed/you’re overlooked for an expected promotion
- You are asked to fill in your own performance review, there is no managerial input
- Your expense account/company car allowance gets cut, other benefits are withdrawn
- Your manager or boss does not include you in meetings, but includes others within your team
- New manager doesn’t involve you within the team (or individually)
- Extreme micro management and criticism
- Losing responsibilities of your role, being undertaken by others within the organisation or outsourced
- Are you being asked to change your job title/role
- Are you suddenly being asked to document your work, and create work flows
- Being asked to suddenly complete timesheets (even if there is an automatic clock-in/out system)
- Being asked to enter your time into software based systems
Business/Company
- Your Company isn’t doing well/the boss gives a speech on tough times ahead
- Unusual amount of off-site/closed-door meetings with senior management
- Company acquisition/merger taken over a competitor
- Company re-organisation
- Recruitment freeze
- Rumours around work about potential redundancies
- The annual party is cancelled
- Large number of teams/people being re-organised
If you know of any other signs to look for, please add them in the comments, so they can be added. If you are adding comments, you either suspect that you will be going through the redundancy process or are already going through it … now may be the time to order our eBook