interview with one the of dice la guys. pretty much sums up what I was saying about the talent pool. interesting little jab/threat at activison in there haha.
Because employment law and ethical contracts don't work that way. Redundancies are exactly that redundancy - your job no longer exists in this company. To tell 900 people that your job no longer exists, then put out vacancies only a couple of weeks later is pretty dubious. In most Western countries it's also illegal.
Because employment law and ethical contracts don't work that way. Redundancies are exactly that redundancy - your job no longer exists in this company. To tell 900 people that your job no longer exists, then put out vacancies only a couple of weeks later is pretty dubious. In most Western countries it's also illegal.
pretty much this...
if the staff were performance managed (ie. reviewed, given time to improve, and failing that improvement warned, and then ultimately let go due to poor performance - "fired"), that's one thing. but a redundancy is NOT down to performance, redundancy is the company saying "we do not need to employ someone to do this job, it is redundant".
in EU it's very illegal, and making 900 people redundant would cripple a company here, because you're not allowed to hire anyone else in the same or similarly skilled position for 6 months after the redundancy has been made. you also have to pay them a notice period and then redundancy pay on top. basically, in the EU they've made it so that if a company wants to file redundancies, they do it because they actually have to, and not because they just want to get rid of some people.
if you want to let someone go due to performance issues, you have to go through a pretty long and drawn out process to get it done, but that's in order to show due diligence on your (the company's) part... and to show that the person you're letting go was genuinely bad at their job and couldn't improve.
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interview with one the of dice la guys. pretty much sums up what I was saying about the talent pool. interesting little jab/threat at activison in there haha.
Or see it this way; why should DICE suffer or be limited because of the performance of others?
pretty much this...
if the staff were performance managed (ie. reviewed, given time to improve, and failing that improvement warned, and then ultimately let go due to poor performance - "fired"), that's one thing. but a redundancy is NOT down to performance, redundancy is the company saying "we do not need to employ someone to do this job, it is redundant".
in EU it's very illegal, and making 900 people redundant would cripple a company here, because you're not allowed to hire anyone else in the same or similarly skilled position for 6 months after the redundancy has been made. you also have to pay them a notice period and then redundancy pay on top. basically, in the EU they've made it so that if a company wants to file redundancies, they do it because they actually have to, and not because they just want to get rid of some people.
if you want to let someone go due to performance issues, you have to go through a pretty long and drawn out process to get it done, but that's in order to show due diligence on your (the company's) part... and to show that the person you're letting go was genuinely bad at their job and couldn't improve.