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Came here looking for this. Reading that email was so profoundly uncomfortable
let's all just start referring everyone who was laid off
They can’t be rehired for 6 months, will be good waste of administrative time!!! Do it!
Help us replace your friends and colleagues with talent that is pennies on the dollar! Dont worry, because we will toss you an embarrassing sweetener since you clearly lost your soul through this process anyway
Read the fine print—you only get that referral $$ if they last a certain amount of time on staff so if they get laid off before that date… you’re SOL on that bonus. (Which I would not put past evil Omc)
Per the last round of employee handbook, they have to stay a year. You both do. Formerly, and by industry standard, it was 90 days.
They're also embarrassingly low.
Publish it here!
Once we realize we are all meaningless to “leadership” we’ll realize that it’s one big game where allegiance is a losing strategy.
It’s a big club and we ain’t in it
“Do you like blood money?”
It just begs the questions:
1. What do their recruiters do? There are so many good people out on the streets, recruiters needing help and giving referral bonuses is like a teacher paying a substitute to come in and teach while they watch.
2. Why are these companies having layoffs then desperate to hire at the same time? Are they just vastly short staffed in a very specific, highly competitive area (eg, Ai programmers)? It all points to poor management that hasn’t done a talent audit and bothered to reallocate people.
1. Recruiters are just seat holders for the most part. With so many people laid off across all these companies, they should be reaching out to the former employees that have hit the 6-month threshold and bringing them back. Or they should be reaching out to candidates that got to the final rounds in previous interviews and hiring them.
2. Across the industry, these companies are laying off the more highly paid and competent full-time people then trying to replace them with lower paid freelancers. If they make everyone freelance, there is no bonus or merit raise, there is no job security, they do not have to pay healthcare or other benefits and there is no PTO. I saw one woman who is a Freelance VP Creative Director, which is crazy.
Was also just told that if you are at the VP or above level, you're ineligible for the bonus anyway though they are "looking into this".
Same at Publicis. The CEO keeps telling people to refer folks but then there have been multiple rounds of layoffs! Who would do that to their friends or colleagues?