Yes.most of the layoffs or the pink slips that are being handed over to employees are purely based on their performances.But as Mr,Darpan and Mr.Sujoy said if the management themselves are not able to engage an employee in a project after hiring him in the first place then its their fault and the employees can't be fired just like that.Before appointing or hiring someone a company should think of the work that will be allocated to the person so that he didn't have to face any humiliation after some time.
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Dipen Trivedi, Project Manager, 3i Infotech
| 04 27 2009 08:31:59 +0000
I agree with Darpan in the respect, that the management should take up responsibility. Unfortunately in some "big companies" some of the top mgmt try to save their own skin, and put on the blame to the subordinates .
The subordinates get the pink slips and the mgmt ( who should have honoured their own fault ) stay put.
The most funniest part of the story is that these companies also aim for a PCCM Level 5.!!!!!
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Sujay Ghosh, Principal Software Engineer / Individual Contributor, SOAIT Solutions (Worksoft Inc.)
| 03 26 2009 10:25:15 +0000
Companies ideally do it once they couldn't make business, it is all marketing stunts. When the Companies feel that they are going to win a bid, they shall start recruiting in numbers, once the deal is not reached, then they give pink slip to employees. To Keep the companies goodwill, they give a bogus name called "Employees given pink slip due to performance"
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Sathish Kumar, SAP Basis Administrator, Logica
| 09 28 2008 17:12:55 +0000
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I agree with Rizwan Ahmed that " Pink slips are more of a political gimmick". An unusual way to kick the employee out of the organisation.
And Yes pink slips are guided by performance, but with the performance of the organization than the employee. If organization is not doing well because of fraud and all employees are the one who are show the doors and not the top C's of the organization.
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Arun Sarin, Business Analyst, Oracle
| 04 08 2009 10:03:11 +0000
Absolutely right Mr.Sinha.
I know a person who was on bench
for almost 6 months, and she was getting paid for it. The company
didn't have any project and the company was not able to engage her and
her colleague. They can't laid them off because they were doing pretty well in the last project.
Finally when other companies started to lay off to cut cost. This one also started to implement it.
Pink slips are given when the companies want to cut cost. To survive the market downturn.
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Dipen Trivedi, Project Manager, 3i Infotech
| 04 02 2009 11:27:50 +0000
No, pink slips are not guided by performance rather it depends on the profit that the organisation in making or the problems it is facing due to the economic slowdown and all.
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Radhakrishna Marar, Business Analyst, Oracle
| 03 27 2009 09:22:41 +0000
yes companies should stay healthier to g row further and sheeding extra load is a good idea so that they can come out of the problem
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Vinayarajan KV, Head/VP/GM-Sales, EP Tech
| 11 17 2008 04:45:35 +0000
Actually, companies edge out the bottom non-performing employees in most cases. This is a measure to stay in the hunt and enrich its profit. However, its is also true that they edge out freshers if projects do not come their way. Hence, its is a common excercise, so I dont think there is nothing to create a hullbo for this.
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Kishalay Majumdar, Software Developer, IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
| 09 28 2008 19:17:57 +0000
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