How times have changed! In a recent NY Times blog post, Claire Cain Miller reported that companies are trying to get ahead of misleading information (a.k.a. gossip) by annoucing the layoffs in the employer’s blog. The examples were in Silicon Valley where technology addiction is particularly high, but the tactics will no doubt spread to less techie regions.
So, if your employer has a blog, check on it occasionally to see what is posted. If the company is large enough to have an independent blog covering it, check that too – looking for the layoff info.
This is being viewed as a more “personal” way to make the announcements and, obviously, an attempt to try to control the message spin. Other interpretations will happen, none-the-less, but at least employers are trying to be more communicative.
Overall, I think this is a good thing. We’ll see how it develops.
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time to look for a job. About.com surveyed human resource professionals and recruiters about which of the top 10 job sites they found the best candidates on, survey results here:
http://humanresources.about.com/gi/pages/poll.htm?poll_id=5763275227&linkback=http://humanresources.about.com/b/a/258241.htm
I thought the results were interesting.