Have you ever come across an actual employee centric company?
Whenever I read guilt posts about people slacking/not pulling their weight, the general advice is to always look out for yourself because companies will fire you in a heartbeat if they want to. Have you ever worked/heard of a company where this doesnât hold true? A company which didnât do layoffs despite companyâs poor performance or didnât fire an employee due to his/her medical condition etc? #tech
Amazon
We live in capitalist country. No such thing exist. Companies will lay you off if it meant adding additional $ to the books no matter how much the revenue and profits are.
Those companies all go out of business quickly.
NVIDIA, yeah
ServiceNow's CEO vowed to not to lay anyone off, I think in the beginning of 2023. He kept that promise. I know a couple who work there and love it. In addition, I have never heard anyone badmouth ServiceNow as an employer. The worst part about ServiceNow is that you have to look at Nvidia multimillionaires across the street every day.
Have heard great things about ServiceNowâs WLB. Strongly considering it for my next move!
canadian companies that arenât going anywhere
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Employee centric is the wrong word - you are looking for a company which treats employee like families. Meta is internally obsessed with Developer productivity and has a high employee freedom, but is not a company which treat everyone like family. Now to answer your question, look for companies with Union or work in government sector.
I think your two examples are very different. Iâve worked for several companies who didnât fire people who were struggling with medical issues which I think showed real compassion but I wouldnât put that in the same category as not firing someone who is not performing. In some cases, not firing someone for poor performance can be the opposite of employee centric when the extra burden lands on the people who are pulling their fair share. As someone whoâs worked at several startups, Iâd also add one caveat that sometimes itâs simply not financially possible to have policies like this no matter how much leadership wants to.
Sorry, I meant companyâs performance. Firing due to performance issues is fair and nothing to complain about.
Ah, that makes more sense then. There are definitely companies that behave nicely like this but itâs usually not publicly traded ones who are beholden to the market. There are always exceptions though for example, I vaguely remember something about meta continuing to pay externally contracted janitors when they closed their office during Covid.