How to Deal with Shame, Recruit Your Friends, and Weather Lay-Offs
How To Deal With Shame, Recruit Your Friends, And Weather Lay-Offs
William Every Week #9DALL·E 2023–01–26 20.05.43 — a view from below ground of a field of trap doors with sad people falling through them. an emotional paintingI’m sure you have heard about all the layoffs within the technology sector. My heart goes out to those affected. I’m among them, and it’s definitely been a point of growth in my life over the last couple months. During a future post I’ll take time to write about what an executive search is like, and how I’ve grown during it.LayoffsLayoffs happen. They can be needed for economic or strategic reasons and I’ve taken my turn at both sides of the table. When you cut high performers from the workforce though you are also severing relationships and motivations that they have fostered within the company.Take for example a strong performing project manager that’s been with the organization for 5 years. They are loved by colleagues and by all accounts have done a great job. There is most certainly a contingency of your employees that have thought of leaving before and maybe even stayed because of that person. They may not quite be a “friend” but they are a part of what makes work worth coming-in for. Let them go and they aren’t going to be the only employee upset at you.When you cut a large section of a company or a team, morale takes a deep cut and you are going to see long tail attrition and…