How are layoffs handled in the Engineering department at Arcadis?

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Layoffs are generally decided at the corporate level through a review of billable hours metrics. The decision to lay people off is made without regard for factors in an employees life that may have contributed to a bad quarter or how the employees departure will impact their project teams. Junior staff bear the brunt of layoffs instead of senior executive leadership who have no billing goals and no marketing goals so their salaries are purely overhead. Executive leadership is disconnected from the people who actually sell and do the company’s work and do not understand exactly what it is the middle managers and junior staff actually do so they make decisions about engineering with their fancy MBAs. So let me ask, if you’re constipated do you call your plumber or you doctor? Arcadis prefers the plumber because he’s cheaper than the doctor.

If a senior manager fails to win bids, you can end up booking to overheads and no matter how hard you have worked, or how many extra hours you have put in, or how many projects you have saved, any unbillable hours are the kiss of death when the share price drops.