The hidden costs of surviving a company retrenchment | Work It

Retrenchment doesn't only affect the people who leave. It can also reshape team dynamics, workloads and career plans for those who are left behind. Nat Fetalvero and Gerald Tan speak with Desmond Aw and Ashwin Lee about how they navigated uncertainty after their teammates got laid off and what they learnt about career resilience and workplace relationships.

Highlights:
00:00 Intro
02:09 The layoff nobody saw coming
03:12 The day the office went silent
05:40 Pushed into "survival mode"
07:40 Rethinking career resilience after layoffs
10:48 Can a good manager save morale?
12:28 The sign it was time to leave
14:51 Survived the first round, but not the second
17:49 The one thing he wished he'd done
19:15 Ask Work It: Handling a boss who overshares

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