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被裁Meta和赛富时员工:再也不想回去了

被裁Meta和赛富时员工:再也不想回去了

JANE THIER 2023-10-25
大多数员工在被裁后都不愿再回到原公司。

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对于一些员工来说,无论经济多么不景气,就业市场多么黯淡,或者当前的工作多么费力不讨好,都无关紧要。一旦被裁(尤其是在疫情期间),许多员工都绝不会想要回到抛弃他们的地方。

根据情况跟踪公司Layoffs.fyi的数据,仅今年一年,科技公司就裁掉了近24.5万名员工,Meta和赛富时(Salesforce)等硅谷巨头领先其他公司,各裁员数千人。

但劳动者们并没有长期沦为输家。现在,随着就业市场再次发生转变,各个公司正在抢夺人才,有些公司还意图请回他们不久前才裁掉的员工。真正的问题是,如果被裁的员工不想回到这些公司呢?

Glassdoor最近的一份调查显示,在受访的6000名专业人士中,超过半数的人(58%)表示永远不会回到裁掉他们的公司。在科技行业尤其如此,只有46%的员工说会“吃回头草”。男性比女性更有可能考虑回头,年长的员工比年轻的员工对此持更加开放的态度。

Glassdoor的首席经济学家亚伦·特拉萨斯(Aaron Terrazas)在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示:“由于劳动力市场在过去一年趋于疲软……有些遗憾是免不了的。”随着对经济衰退的担忧消退,一些行业已经开始“谨慎地”加大招聘力度,但“企业声誉问题对招聘影响深远”。

特拉萨斯补充道,“在劳动力市场的钟摆不可避免地回摆时”,裁员(以及当时裁员的方式)的影响“会反过来困扰公司”。“前员工可能是公司最忠实的拥护者,也可能是最尖锐的批评者。”结果取决于公司的性质。

赛富时今年年初裁掉了约10%的员工,但如今其首席执行官马克·贝尼奥夫(Marc Benioff)正在鼓励被裁的员工申请填补公司3000多个空缺职位。贝尼奥夫9月表示:“我们的工作是发展公司,并谋求继续获得巨大的利润。我们清楚公司必须招聘数千名员工。”他希望招聘的员工中有很大一部分是“回头客”。贝尼奥夫承认,他试图通过举办“前员工活动向已另谋职位的员工传达这样的意思:没关系,回来吧”,以此吸引员工返回公司。

至于Meta(此前裁掉约四分之一的员工),他们如今又开始招聘了,该公司甚至为想要插队的“回头客”创建了一个专门的“前员工门户网站”。

为何员工们对“吃回头草”望而却步

离职是让人头疼的事,尤其是当这项决定是员工自己做出的时。在所谓的“大辞职潮”时期辞职的员工中,80%的人后来都感到后悔。因此,这些人相对不那么抵触回到原公司,这就解释了为什么整个就业市场的员工回头率呈上升趋势。但对于被动离职的员工来说,回头无疑是一个艰难的决定,只有极少这样的先例。

在匿名员工论坛Blind上,一位Stripe的员工不久前问道,员工在被裁掉后返回原公司的现象是否很常见。发帖者提到绩效改进计划,并写道:“我知道如果你被绩效改进计划淘汰或解雇了,那么你基本上就进入了公司的“不聘用”名单,但假如你是被裁掉的呢?有人会在被裁掉后回到原公司吗?出人意料地是,在我的职业生涯中,我从未见过这种情况发生。”

一名微软(Microsoft)员工说,他们在“许多工程师”身上看到过这样的情况,尤其是那些在大衰退时期被裁的人,往往在短短一年左右后又返回了原公司。有些人会进行面试,但也“只是走个过场”。

诚然,如果员工能够承受早期的尴尬,回头或许是一个极佳的选择。他们很可能已经掌握工作的诀窍,可以跳过整个面试流程,并且无需证明自己的能力或与经理建立新的关系。

当然,这对公司也有好处。软件公司Visier的首席执行官黄瑞安去年在领英(LinkedIn)上写道:“回聘员工可以节省招聘成本及免除入职和培训流程,还有一个好处是,员工会把从最近工作经历中新获得的知识带到公司。”不过,经过一年,员工考虑回头的可能性已明显降低。黄补充道,员工如果真的返回原公司,那很可能会期望公司给他们平均加薪25%。这就给雇主留下了一个问题:你的回头究竟值多少钱?(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢

对于一些员工来说,无论经济多么不景气,就业市场多么黯淡,或者当前的工作多么费力不讨好,都无关紧要。一旦被裁(尤其是在疫情期间),许多员工都绝不会想要回到抛弃他们的地方。

根据情况跟踪公司Layoffs.fyi的数据,仅今年一年,科技公司就裁掉了近24.5万名员工,Meta和赛富时(Salesforce)等硅谷巨头领先其他公司,各裁员数千人。

但劳动者们并没有长期沦为输家。现在,随着就业市场再次发生转变,各个公司正在抢夺人才,有些公司还意图请回他们不久前才裁掉的员工。真正的问题是,如果被裁的员工不想回到这些公司呢?

Glassdoor最近的一份调查显示,在受访的6000名专业人士中,超过半数的人(58%)表示永远不会回到裁掉他们的公司。在科技行业尤其如此,只有46%的员工说会“吃回头草”。男性比女性更有可能考虑回头,年长的员工比年轻的员工对此持更加开放的态度。

Glassdoor的首席经济学家亚伦·特拉萨斯(Aaron Terrazas)在接受《财富》杂志采访时表示:“由于劳动力市场在过去一年趋于疲软……有些遗憾是免不了的。”随着对经济衰退的担忧消退,一些行业已经开始“谨慎地”加大招聘力度,但“企业声誉问题对招聘影响深远”。

特拉萨斯补充道,“在劳动力市场的钟摆不可避免地回摆时”,裁员(以及当时裁员的方式)的影响“会反过来困扰公司”。“前员工可能是公司最忠实的拥护者,也可能是最尖锐的批评者。”结果取决于公司的性质。

赛富时今年年初裁掉了约10%的员工,但如今其首席执行官马克·贝尼奥夫(Marc Benioff)正在鼓励被裁的员工申请填补公司3000多个空缺职位。贝尼奥夫9月表示:“我们的工作是发展公司,并谋求继续获得巨大的利润。我们清楚公司必须招聘数千名员工。”他希望招聘的员工中有很大一部分是“回头客”。贝尼奥夫承认,他试图通过举办“前员工活动向已另谋职位的员工传达这样的意思:没关系,回来吧”,以此吸引员工返回公司。

至于Meta(此前裁掉约四分之一的员工),他们如今又开始招聘了,该公司甚至为想要插队的“回头客”创建了一个专门的“前员工门户网站”。

为何员工们对“吃回头草”望而却步

离职是让人头疼的事,尤其是当这项决定是员工自己做出的时。在所谓的“大辞职潮”时期辞职的员工中,80%的人后来都感到后悔。因此,这些人相对不那么抵触回到原公司,这就解释了为什么整个就业市场的员工回头率呈上升趋势。但对于被动离职的员工来说,回头无疑是一个艰难的决定,只有极少这样的先例。

在匿名员工论坛Blind上,一位Stripe的员工不久前问道,员工在被裁掉后返回原公司的现象是否很常见。发帖者提到绩效改进计划,并写道:“我知道如果你被绩效改进计划淘汰或解雇了,那么你基本上就进入了公司的“不聘用”名单,但假如你是被裁掉的呢?有人会在被裁掉后回到原公司吗?出人意料地是,在我的职业生涯中,我从未见过这种情况发生。”

一名微软(Microsoft)员工说,他们在“许多工程师”身上看到过这样的情况,尤其是那些在大衰退时期被裁的人,往往在短短一年左右后又返回了原公司。有些人会进行面试,但也“只是走个过场”。

诚然,如果员工能够承受早期的尴尬,回头或许是一个极佳的选择。他们很可能已经掌握工作的诀窍,可以跳过整个面试流程,并且无需证明自己的能力或与经理建立新的关系。

当然,这对公司也有好处。软件公司Visier的首席执行官黄瑞安去年在领英(LinkedIn)上写道:“回聘员工可以节省招聘成本及免除入职和培训流程,还有一个好处是,员工会把从最近工作经历中新获得的知识带到公司。”不过,经过一年,员工考虑回头的可能性已明显降低。黄补充道,员工如果真的返回原公司,那很可能会期望公司给他们平均加薪25%。这就给雇主留下了一个问题:你的回头究竟值多少钱?(财富中文网)

译者:中慧言-刘嘉欢

For some workers, it doesn’t matter how grim the economy is, how dismal the job market, or how thankless their current job. If they were laid off—especially during the pandemic—many workers would never dream of returning to the place that dropped them.

Tech companies have laid off nearly 245,000 workers this year alone, per tracker Layoffs.fyi, and Silicon Valley heavyweights like Meta and Salesforce have led the pack, each culling thousands of jobs apiece.

But workers weren’t losers for long. Now, as the job market shifts once again, companies are scrambling for talent, and some are angling for the very kinds of workers they just cut. The real question is what will happen when those workers decide they don’t want them back?

Over half (58%) of 6,000 professionals who responded to a recent Glassdoor poll said they’d never return to a company who laid them off. In the tech sector specifically, just 46% of workers said they’d boomerang. Men were slightly more likely to consider boomeranging than women, and older workers were more open-minded than younger ones.

“As the labor market has softened over the past year….some regrets are inevitable,” Aaron Terrazas, chief economist at Glassdoor, tells Fortune. A few sectors have begun “cautiously” ramping up their hiring as their fears of a recession recede, but “corporate reputation casts a long shadow.”

The legacy of layoffs—and how they were carried out—could “come back to haunt companies when the pendulum of the labor market inevitably swings back,” Terrazas adds. “Former employees can be a company’s most loyal advocates, or they can be the most piercing critics.” The result depends on the nature of the company.

Salesforce laid off about 10% of its workforce earlier this year, but now CEO Marc Benioff is encouraging those people to apply to fill its 3,000-plus open roles. “Our job is to grow the company and to continue to achieve great margins,” Benioff said in September. “We know we have to hire thousands of people.” He’s hoping a good portion of those people will be boomerangs. Benioff admitted to attempting to lure workers back in with an “alumni event for people who are employed in other companies to say—it’s okay, come back.”

As for Meta, after laying off about a quarter of its workforce, jobs are open again, and the company has even constructed a specialty “alumni portal” for boomerangs looking to cut the line.

Why boomeranging makes workers cringe

Leaving a job is fraught, especially when it’s the worker’s call. Eighty percent of employees who left their jobs during the so-called Great Resignation came to regret it. That would make boomeranging, for them, a bit less conflicted—and explains why boomeranging is on the rise across the board. But for workers who had no say in the matter, it’s no doubt a rocky call to make, with minimal precedent.

On Blind, an anonymous employee forum, one Stripe worker recently asked whether layoff boomerangs are common. “I know if you get PIPed out or fired you are basically added to a ‘do not hire’ list but what happens with a layoff?” the poster wrote, referring to performance improvement plans. “Has anyone ever returned back after being laid off? I’ve surprisingly never seen it happen in my career.”

A Microsoft employee said they’d seen it with “multiple engineers,” particularly those who were laid off during the Great Recession, only to rejoin a year or so later. Some were re-interviewed, but it was a “mere formality.”

Granted, boomeranging—if an employee can withstand the early awkwardness—could be a strong move. A worker likely already knows the ropes, can skip the interview process entirely, and won’t need to prove themselves or forge new relationships with managers.

Naturally, it would help the company too. “Re-hiring employees means saving on recruitment costs, onboarding and training, and they bring the benefit of newfound knowledge from their most recent employment experience,” Ryan Wong, CEO of software firm Visier, wrote on LinkedIn last year. But, after a year, workers are significantly less likely to consider boomeranging. And if they do come back, they’re likely expecting an average pay bump of 25%, Wong added. That leaves employers with the question: How much are your boomerangs worth?

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