From Inside the Room Where Decisions About Your Career are Made.
From Inside the Room Where Decisions About Your Career are Made.
Uncertain times call for keeping your options open
Looking Around the Company, Feeling Unsure
You may feel relieved you survived a layoff. A few weeks later, that relief often fades. It feels unsure, chaotic, and confusing.
These are all normal and expected feelings.
What comes over the next few months is rarely talked about.
Managers want to show empathy, and at the same time want their teams to move forward.
Trust your gut on layoff signals
Reading the tea leaves on a future layoff
There is significant global economic uncertainty right now. In the U.S., even industries that once felt insulated are now feeling pressure.
After years of record financial growth, 2025 closed with the highest unemployment levels in two decades. That perspective matters because layoffs rarely arrive without context. They arrive after conditions shift.
If you’re picking up on signals that your company may be preparing for a layoff,