Toxic Work Environment - Anonymous employee iTradeNetwork Employee Review

Let's paint a picture. At the end of January 2017 the new management decided to do something drastic, they systematically laid off about a third of the workforce (roughly 50 employees or so) on the same day. There was no warning, 6 to 8 security guards hired from a 3rd party security vendor were at the Dublin HQ to assist in the mass firings. One-by-one, employee's were being called into their new managers offices to be told they were being laid off. Security guards would be waiting outside the managers office to escort those employee's back to their desks to clean out their stuff and then they were instructed to leave. While this was happening there was no communication to the staff, employee's were sitting at their desks all day in fear, waiting for the call to come. One-by-one, throughout the entire day the employee's were getting fired with no explanation from management. You can imagine how traumatizing this was for the remaining employee's. This one single event was handled so poorly that it left a stain on the organization to this day. After that event the new management began to replace those employee's (many of whom possessed key industry & application-specific knowledge that could not be replaced) with their friends from other companies. One could argue that many of these people did not possess the appropriate skills that were required for the positions they were hired for. As a result of this, there was a perceived bias against management & HR to favor certain people over others. This is very clearly a "Yes-man" organization. Where anybody who offers an opinion that differs from the management's is automatically let go. You either fall in line or you will get fired.