Does the company you work for really need the amount of employees it has at this moment?

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

I was watching a video by Logically Answered YouTube channel. He said that despite Twitter firing about 6500 employees, the platform is functioning as usual, save for some outings, and has even managed to get some new features.

So it creates the question of the nature of work the surplus employees were doing in the company. I mean, if a company is able to sustain itself with just 1300 employees, why did they need the amount of employees earlier?

Anybody working in software knows that even a small team is capable of building amazing products. That is just how some of the world famous software debuted in the market.

This also follows the pattern of mass hiring and then mass firing and on and on. Just how bad the HR management must be if they overestimate the labour force required. And not once, but again and again.

So? What is your opinion?

[Aerissa_Jade]

My department itself could probably do with 1 or 2 less (we are very small) but due to us being very small, things could go crazy nuts ultra fast. Which is why they keep us because if we get scheduled too far out, or things mess up the company ends up paying hundreds of thousands or millions in compensation.

Having a few extra employees is cheaper than compensation plus the bad reputation that goes with it.

[Aerissa_Jade]

I forgot to say, the support department though could use a lot more employees, they are understaffed and wait times are over an hour long for people calling in for help.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Insightful. Only someone with practical experience or deep insight would say what you said.👍

[Aerissa_Jade]

I've seen it, as we have contracts and deadlines and not meeting them means compensation.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

So you work in a service-based company. Cool! Does anyone you know work in a product-based company?

What happens to the employees who were responsible for the compensation?

[Aerissa_Jade]

There is a lot of government contracts but usually it isn't the fault of one specific person, it could simply be that there is no one to work on that project due to everyone already being scheduled out for two months but a deadline is close.

If a lot of other clients got scheduled first, and the person doing the scheduling has logged every attempt to get them scheduled sooner.

The client waits until a couple of weeks before, thinking its 3 weeks we can get this done... as sales told them it would take two weeks.

Which is technically true, two weeks and they will be done (if not problems) but if all available people are scheduled out 30 to 60 days, now what?

They blame us, so the goal is to have enough help that we aren't scheduled out more than two weeks. Then to get sales to explain it will only take two weeks but they can't just call us two or three weeks before the deadline, they need to schedule it like they would any other appointment.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

What is your industry exactly? I am not able to get a hang of it. I guessed IT, but it seems to not be the case, I believe.

[Aerissa_Jade]

Medical software.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Amazing. I just looked it up. Pretty important work!
It must be quite demanding as you are indirectly dealing with a person. 👍

[Uannoyme]

My company needs more people. We can't keep anyone because they're cheap assholes.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

The employees or the management?

[Uannoyme]

Management. It's one of those companies that likes to pile on the extra responsibilities without the extra pay.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Damn. I can just say to hang in there. Fighting!

[jshm2]

"Logically Answered" is largely full of shit.

Regarding Twitter, it's lost around half of it's 44 billion value that was paid for it, and Tesla too is not doing well either. So it's tenuous positivity at best, and deepthroating Musk bullshit at worst to claim he's "done right".

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

I have a feeling it will rise up again.

[OlderAndWiser]

My law firm has 13 positions, including three attorneys. We just eliminated two positions.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Did you close the positions altogether? Or just fired the employees?

[OlderAndWiser]

We have no plans to hire anyone to fill those positions.

[midnightmoon05]

Like everywhere else…
Now my sister has to do the work of those they fired. She is asking for an increase…but doesn’t help with mental health with the extra work load. They are not replacing the two who left.
Same with my job…one left…. they distributed work load to others workers till they find a replacement in 6 months.

[midnightmoon05]

My work is always adding more staffs…due to the expansion of the new building and additional new people moving in the neighborhood.
we are always short of staff.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Are you the HR? If you are, I am really sorry that I pointed fingers at the HR in my question. I really am.

[midnightmoon05]

I’m not HR lol. I’m a teacher.
You can ask whatever you want here. 👍

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Teacher is even more cool than HR. Your heart stays young. I heard it from my teachers.

They said, they could easily get an industrial job. Like that. But they preferred to teach in coaching centers as it was less stressful, but even more than that, they lived among young people. That kept them young at heart.

I like their logic. Maybe I would also become one, but at PG level or UG level.

[midnightmoon05]

Yes…I behave like a 6 yr old when I’m done with work. 😂 my job keeps me really really really young!

[Anonymous]

We were always having to dill with more work than needed so yes we needed everyone

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Which sector do you work in?

[Twalli]

Well, I just left. The place I left doesn't need the number of employees it has. It needs more. When our ONE biller cannot do that when a secretary is taking an off day, we need more people. As for my new job, I don't know, I haven't started yet. I doubt we'll be short-staffed since we actually have a full medical conglomerate backing us up, but I'll have to see the backlog first.

[TacosRAwesome]

My sector does but there's a lot of dead weight in the whole company.

[notwoke]

where i work, we have way to many fake jobs disguised as "director of nothing" so we can meet our diversity mandates. Every time you go to the store and buy anything made by a large company this is baked into the price

[In_Trance]

It does; the people are just not doing the right jobs that's all

[exitseven]

Yes, in fact they are looking for more people.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

What is sector of your company?

[exitseven]

Medical supplies

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Amazing sector. My dad has many contacts in that industry. I mean, not the higher level of contacts, just the middlemen, suppliers and all.

Since my dad is a Govt. employee, they process his requests with some priority. As losing a Govt. person is equivalent to losing a permanent customer. Not to forget the endless contacts they may get through that.

That is my guess.

[prosmind]

Not at all. One fourth strength if trimmed, may not cause any problem.

[Exterminatore]

We need more than we have.

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah, there's only 1