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Business Insider Gregg Stebben spoke to Bill about In case you haven't noticed, a new trend when laying off employees is to label all those being laid-off as "low performers."
1. When a company like Facebook lies off 5% of its workforce and says it's because they are all "low performers"...
...what does it say about Facebook's hiring practices that they hired that many "low performers" to begin with?
2. When a company like Facebook lies off 5% of its workforce and says it's because they are all "low performers"...
...what impact are those layoffs likely to have on the staff that remains?
3. Is it possible that most of the laid-off employees were actually doing a fine job...
...but it is the CEO and upper management of the companies doing the layoffs that are the "low performers" when performing their duties?
4. Why do you think companies have begun to label employees "low performers"...
...are doing this when doing layoffs?
5. If this happens to me...
...what can I or should I do?