Stop consulting the opinion of talent, don’t count on them in new projects that arise and limit access to information, These are some of the signals that companies give when they are about to fire someone.
59% of HR professionals in Argentina consulted by Bumeran indicated that they had not considered the opinion of the person they are about to hunt on important decisions in their area, while 41% of respondents consider employee contributions. This means that in almost 6 out of 10 cases are no longer taken into consideration Within the relevant decisions of your sector, the comments of those who are about to leave the company.
Across countries in the region, the response is similar: 71% of human resources specialists in Ecuador stop consulting talent on important decisions in their area, in Peru 61%, in Panama 60% and in Chile 45%.
“Red flag, signs that you are about to be fired” is a Boomerang study involving 336 HR professionals from the region: 113 from Argentina, 38 from Chile, 92 from Ecuador, 52 from Panama and 41 from Peru. The study explores how specialists act when they are about to fire a talent and what are the warning signs of the decision.
According to the data collected, in Argentina, once the professionals have made the decision, 52% of them restrict access to information of the person about to shoot, facing a 48% who say no.
If, on the other hand, it concerns institutional and important announcements, 85% of Argentine professionals say they continue to receive this information to the person who is about to leave the company and only 15% decide not to.
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And what about the events or new projects that have arisen in the last working period of the person who is about to be fired? 65% of Argentine professionals stop inviting talent to conferences, congresses and business trips Faced with this situation, while 35% continue to add the employee in addition to having made the decision.
Moreover, 82% of Argentine specialists also stop adding talent to new projects that appear in the company, while 18% continue to have the participation of the person who is about to leave the company.
However, if it’s meetings that the person used to attend, 65% of respondents in Argentina continue to add them, but 35% stop inviting them.
In the rest of the countries of the region the situation changes: Only the Argentines and Chileans continue to add the most talent to matches they were in, Ecuadorians and Peruvians do the opposite and Panamanians respond equally to both options.
47% of Argentine respondents say that communication with the person is less and less, while 34% believe it is greater to see if the situation can be resolved and 19% say it is the same.
And how is the agreement with the person who is about to greet? Contrary to many of the myths that exist about layoffs and how to act in this situation, 65% of Argentine professionals confirm that the way talent is treated does not change and that it stays the same until the end, but 35% say it’s different.
Compared to other countries in the regionArgentina concentrates the highest percentage of HR specialists who replied that they do not change the deal with talent, it is followed by Peru with 54%, Panama with 52%, Chile with 50% and Ecuador with 45%.
Furthermore, 54% of Argentine specialists assure that in the face of this situation the bond with their colleagues does not change, although 34% believe that if the people in their team know about it, it is possible that the treatment will change.
48% of respondents in Argentina say that talents keep the same tasks until their last day in the company, even though 42% assign them less and less responsibilities, 8% change them and only 2% provide more flow or ne delves into the complexity.
Also, while most of their tasks aren’t changed, 52% of respondents in the country begin to entrust their responsibilities to other colleaguescompared to 48% who keep each employee on job until their last working day at the company.
In turn, 51% of local specialists say that even though they have already made the decision, their work is corrected in the same way, 27% say it is incorrect and 22% elaborate on the corrections and also capture attention.
In relation to the difficulty of the assignments, 89% of Argentine professionals say that when they are about to fire someone they do not entrust the person with difficult assignments to have arguments to fire them, while 11% choose to make their job more complex, for this reason.
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Source: Clarin
