Our earlier post, The Inflexion Point for the IT industry , generated a lot of interest. There were more than 140 comments and it’s been quite a revealing debate, with views from all angles. One of the players fighting the TCS “layoff” posted what they say is the recording of a “termination interview” recently. Now, let’s be honest and say that this could have been handled with more subtlety. I’ve had my mistakes too in firing people, and that deep sinking feeling in your stomach stays for days because you know you took away something beloved to the person: a job. But this interview should make the TCS HR think about how to lessen the impact. Secondly, I’d like to put it on record that the firing is fair : The person does have a lower rating than other people and probably the pay-to-performance ratio was low; but this should or could have been communicated better. … (Read On…)
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