My company's announced that they're making redundancies at the end of the month but we don't know how many, we don't know from which department and it's so hard to stay focused with everything so up in the air.
The waves of lay-offs that followed the global financial crisis left a lot of extra work to do for those who remained, and the ubiquity of communications tools makes it difficult for them to get away from their job.
Can we help you? Well, last academic year in spite of staff cuts, we counselled two hundred and forty international students for a total of twenty-six hundred hours counselling.
Let's write about it, but we must include confirmation that there won't be any redundancies, at least in the foreseeable future, to avoid causing anxiety.
An example of these is work sharing with government subsidies. Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.
Even as other businesses laid off employees last year because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon grew tremendously hiring half a million people in 2020.