The signs you may be about to lose your job – Business

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

The signs you may be about to lose your job – Personal

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  • Your expense account/company car allowance gets cut, other benefits are withdrawn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