Report: Employees Facing Layoffs More Likely to Talk About Layoffs
by John Paczkowski
Posted on November 17, 2008 at 6:51 AM PT
Astonishing.
In a down economy–one in which Challenger, Gray and Christmas expects some 180,000 tech sector jobs to be lost–career and workplace chatter is more likely to include the word “layoff” than not. That’s the word from Glassdoor.com, a site that collects insider reports on the salaries, work conditions and workplace attitudes of employees at companies around the country.
In fact, according to Glassdoor, the percentage of employee comments mentioning layoffs has grown six out of the last eight months, increasing some 64.2 percent from a low of 2.8 percent in April to a high of 4.6 percent in November. Says Glassdoor, “We searched company reviews on Glassdoor.com for various forms of the word ‘layoff’ and found that the percentage of reviews that mention ‘layoff’ has increased sharply, particularly with employees at AOL/Time Warner, Sprint Nextel and Alcatel-Lucent.”
So there’s an uptick in employee mentions of the word “layoff” at companies destined for them.
In other news, all brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then, thin again at the far end….
Comments
Is this Monty Python week?
That is my favorite episode, if there can be such a thing. I particularly liked the way the two skits overlap with the travel office skit starting up while Anne is still clearing her throat (for the second theory).
Which reminds me of my theory (and don’t go stealin’ it!) that everything that happens in the world can be explained or illuminated by a Monty Python sketch. Things that happened on the show that don’t resemble things in real life represent events that haven’t happened yet. Somehow I think we are way overdue for a dose of Spiny Norman.
There, that should keep you busy.
Posted by Mac Beach at November 17th, 2008 at 9:13 amthe companies in the list you show are all mismanaged losers. flush ‘em all
Posted by Sam Harrison at November 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pmAre you challenging me to work in a Piranha Brothers reference, Mac?
Posted by John Paczkowski at November 17th, 2008 at 5:41 pm