Weird to put that on the employees if you ask me. It's not like there is exactly 13% of bad employees. Or 25% of bad employees but they decide to just fire 13% for some reason.
To me, it seems quite evident, they need to reduce the spending for any reason, so they reduce the workforce. Nothing to do with useless employees. You can be shit at your job or very good, they will have a metric threshold telling them you need to go. Same at Twitter, Meta, Google, whatever.
Stop putting that on the employee who spent 3 months to get a job just to be told they wasn't useful. That's 'bad' managing all the way down, nothing to do with the employee, at all.
Maybe they fired some after and evaluation process, and than number came out to be 13%. Or maybe they laid of department X and that department just happened to be 13% of the company.
Why are you so sure the 13% was the starting place of all their thought process?
GP said they have overhired, which is definitely bad managing, or that employee aren't productive, and if >5-10% employees are non-productive that is a managing or interviewing problem as well.
But saying it has nothing to do with employee is also not correct. If someone is signing up for a company that does not manage its finance sustainably, they should expect this. And company would only overpay if they aren't focusing on cost at that moment. So for all the folks who managed to double their CTC in COVID period should be prepared for this case.
They do now, but they are looking at tomorrow. Nobody has a clear idea what is coming down the turnpike at the moment. (China economy, high inflation, Ukraine, unipolar to multi-polar world, interest rates going up, high energy costs, global warming, de-population in some countries, health care costs blow-outs due to boomers going into 65+ age range etc).
To me, it seems quite evident, they need to reduce the spending for any reason, so they reduce the workforce. Nothing to do with useless employees. You can be shit at your job or very good, they will have a metric threshold telling them you need to go. Same at Twitter, Meta, Google, whatever.
Stop putting that on the employee who spent 3 months to get a job just to be told they wasn't useful. That's 'bad' managing all the way down, nothing to do with the employee, at all.