Punk Rock HR Secrets: Job Loss II

Louise Fletcher wrote a really interesting comment on my blog — and she elaborates on how people are selected for layoffs. This is good for you guys to know.

While I agree with your point that often jobs are eliminated not people, it’s also true that often there are several people in the same job and in that case, people are chosen based on how much value they add.

For example, I worked at a video game company. Each development team might have 10 programmers, 10 artists and 10 designers. If you have to eliminate 2 from each group, that decision is going to be decided based on who is perceived as the least valuable.