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This is bound to happen if there are no worker protection provisions at federal level. Nobody cares about them when things are going great and it’s an employee market. But when things go south, employers have no limits.
I can’t speak for deloitte, but zoom will get awarded for this by wall street. The more layoffs or cutting employee benefits, the higher your stock gets a boost.
Once Canada and the European Union decide to make immigration for Americans easier, things will get very interesting.
Yes, once you factor in healthcare costs, pension benefits, education costs (if you have kids), paid holidays & sick leave, maternity & paternity leave, bereavement leave, car schemes, relatively long notice periods (eg 3 months paid), workers rights (eg redundancy pay), then the US salaries only look attractive if you are a risk taker. Otherwise the salaries generally even out. I'd say USA is better when you're young, and mid/older people would probably be better off with the certainty in Europe.
Americans also work much longer hours in my experience, and they don't take many days off during the year.
I hate it here.
I think this is only for the delivery center folks not for the traditional(core) talent models.
What is delivery center?
So sad
Welcome to the real world
So what do the cuts consists of for delivery center or PDM folks?