I just talked to my manager about largely the same thing, and apparently there are a ton of legal issues, so it’s generally a lot easier to just lay off entire departments than try to distinguish between good and bad employees. For example, if one of the people you selected happens to be a minority, but you selected them because they underperform, you need to prove in court that it wasn’t motivated at all by their minority status.
I’m guessing that’s what happened here. They laid off good and bad employees because it’s a lot easier (and probably cheaper in the long run) to shut down departments than deal with lawsuits.
I just talked to my manager about largely the same thing, and apparently there are a ton of legal issues, so it’s generally a lot easier to just lay off entire departments than try to distinguish between good and bad employees. For example, if one of the people you selected happens to be a minority, but you selected them because they underperform, you need to prove in court that it wasn’t motivated at all by their minority status.
I’m guessing that’s what happened here. They laid off good and bad employees because it’s a lot easier (and probably cheaper in the long run) to shut down departments than deal with lawsuits.