Is redeployment another word for layoffs?

We are very different re business experience and I'm not familiar with yours and vice versa.

This is mostly a marker that I am reading.

Soldiers get " deployed" to a sight to do their job. They return and may get "redeployed" - sent out again - to do another job. I

In the business world , this may have been called "trouble shooting."

Not sure what kind of company you work for, but it sounds like they are doing everything possible to prevent people from being laid off.

On surface it does sound that way, but to be honest - I don't trust them. Our company has a reputation for layoffs - we have them usually twice a year. My boss was one of the last people who got laid off in that last wave.

So my thoughts were - they want to keep us around as long as possible to train the staff in India. We were told we (or some of us) would be training them. I do think those individuals impacted directly will short term be kept and moved to elsewhere. I also think that the company is hoping enough people leave the company they do not need to layoff. However, as more and more groups start moving people to India, there is in reality only going to be x number of spots. Eventually, if enough people do not leave the company, the only solution will be layoffs.

My other concern is now there is lack of growth potential. I already had to tell an employee the promotion position she was applying for (one in which I supported her to do so) was moving overseas. So now instead of promoting people we are either moving the position overseas or moving an individual from another group who's job was moved overseas.

<<dusting off the old resume>>>

Linkat: It's very nice to see you back on A2K.

Relative to your question about layoffs,etc I suspect that more folks at your company will be relocated to another Country, or probably just terminated. I don't know what your situation is in the Company, but I'd brush up my resume and start looking for another job if I were you.

The term, REDEPLOYMENT sounds like something the students at the Harvard MBA program might want to use when trying to get rid of certain employees , should they ever be in a position of wanting to fire employees and still look like a bunch of "good guys".

Good luck!

Thanks - I have an updated resume - will need to update linkedin and then reach out to contacts.

Tough to get a job at my level in my industry right now.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts is about 2.8% and the job market is tight. Folks with advanced degrees in biotech have had to take jobs in California, with the idea/hope that someday they'll be able to re-locate back to Boston.

Families have been split up, with the kids and wife ( working) staying in the Boston area, while the husband lives and works on the West coast and hopes that one day he'll be able to come back to Boston.

Looks like there may be too many very well- educated folks looking for jobs right now.

I definitely would look for a different job if I were you. I also would talk to the head of the firm - or whoever is able to make decisions and ask them if you leave the company now what severance package they could offer you.
Being laid off means you get nothing!

The company is way to large. No way I would be able to talk to head of company much less negotiate anything with them.

They actually have layoff packages they don't have an option where you can volunteer and get a package.

Quote Miller:

Your second sentence might well be true, however it tends to clash with your first sentence. If the unemployment rate is only 2.8%, then that indicates that employers are looking for workers and keeping the ones they have.

Well, that's too bad, but I would not wait around until something happens. I'd be more proactive and start looking for a different job - maybe a different field altogether? Something more stable.

If I went to another field I would have to take a large paycut. The nice thing is in my industry I have worked in various areas so I can qualify for high level positions in different areas of my industry so I am marketable in that respect.

My industry is stable in the sense that due to SEC regulations my job is a necessuty. So they have to have my position. But like most industries many jobs are moving overseas because it is cheaper labor.

I am reaching out just to be prepared. I am not worried short term...there will be positions locally short term just longer term if jobs continue to move eventually it will be an issue. The other side is that I am either at or close to being what is referred to in the recruiting field as a seasoned employee making me less marketable to move...i.e. I would like to retire in 10 years or so.

Link, I don't mean this in an ugly way, but I take you as a spoiled brat, living in a balloon.

What's not to be ugly being called a spoiled brat?

Well you know, "just saying".

I don't see anything in Linkat's posts that shows her as being spoiled. She sees the possibility of her job being shipped overseas and is trying to figure out what to do.

Well apparently at least a couple people think so with the thumbs up.

I don't take it personally - because if they knew me, they would know how far from the truth it is. There is no need on my part to explain myself to someone who reads a little blurb and then interprets that as being a spoiled brat. Seemed a little presumptuous to make that sort opinion of a couple of comments. One of the reasons I have decreased my time on here.

I've missed your posts on A2K, and like you and perhaps for the same reasons, I've decreased my time here.

Good luck Linkat.

thanks - like I said I don't take these comments personally - simply I tire of them even when they are not directed at me. When I start seeing an increase of these petty sorts of posts, I leave.