We published a short series on dealing with the coming layoffs.
Now that we've started Q2 2020, the layoffs are happening and quickly.
Enterprise IT is cutting thousands of workers based on the global outlook. Events are pushing organizations to make decisions now, and that creates the risk of bad long term decisions. A good approach can help minimize this risk. This series of blog posts will focus first on the information needed and then on the actions needed.
Getting started, sit with the managers needed, and draw up lists (including costs) for each group of:
1) People absolutely untouchable due to legal, regulatory, critical business operational functions, and the like?
2) People absolutely untouchable for enterprise IT functions –these might be people who manage crypto, understand cloud deployments, are key to network security, or who are currently holding together your remote workers.
3) What IT functions have such a large investment/learning curve/certification requirement that you have to keep them even if expensive?
4) What IT teams will simply not function if you lose leadership, single points of knowledge or people key to the team dynamics?
5) Where the IT process not documented, positions are so out of true with actual day-to-day work, or where there isn’t time to train?
6) Who are your top performers (10-15% at most) you will protect?
This was the easy simple exercise – and it needs to be done in a hurry. If this takes days and discussion, then this will be far more painful than believed.
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