Is it normal for the company to lay off employees at the end of the year? Does this happen in your company?

Yes, at the end of each year, the company always tries to dismiss those useless employees.

Especially in the last two years, the epidemic situation has been repeated, and all walks of life have difficulties in operation. In order to reduce expenses, many companies are trying to reduce some unnecessary departments and try to lay off employees at the end of the year.

My company is also doing this work in recent days. I can introduce it to you from the current situation of my company.

I am in a branch company, and the internal staff are mainly engaged in network promotion and other positions. Recently, the company felt that the existence of our branch was of little significance, so it began to try its best to force us to leave voluntarily. There are more than a dozen people in our branch. At present, only one person is still working normally, and the rest are dead.

This is not rigorous enough, because we also have an administrative personnel position here, and now this personnel is the busiest every day, making appointments for interviews on various recruitment platforms every day. The position she recruited made us feel chilling, because the people she recruited were all to replace us. As long as she recruits the right person, one of us will be hung up and have nothing to do.

The key point is that these newcomers are all employed by a new company under the head office. The function of that new company is to connect with our branch, and our fate is already clear.

It's almost the end of the year, and people here have been idle for a long time. The reason why everyone is still here is to wait for further notice. The company said that if we were fired, we would pack up and go home. However, according to the current situation, the company may not be willing to dismiss us, but will try to let us leave voluntarily.

We don't want to leave voluntarily, so we are spending money here at present to see who can consume more energy than ourselves and the company. However, I don't think we can last long. There is no work to do, and the monthly performance pay is zero. At this rate, everyone can only earn a basic salary, even life is difficult. It seems that we can only ride a donkey to find a horse now.

Speaking of layoffs at the end of the year, at least as far as I know, there are already several floors in the office building where our company is located. It's the end of the year, and the results of one year are good. Those departments that are of little use to the company's development should be laid off, and people need to be recruited in the future. Anyway, there are many people now, and recruiting one person is almost finished.

Just like the people we recruit every day here, we clearly know that every time we recruit more people, it means that the day of being laid off is closer, but there is nothing we can do.