•  PerogiBoi   ( @PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ) 
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    10 days ago

    I used to work in HR at one of the largest employers in my country. Layoffs, work force adjustments, rescinding of telework, negative things in general are purposefully picked to be given on Fridays or before holidays.

    The theory is that by doing so, you minimize risk to the company. If they commit suicide, they do so on the weekend or during the holidays, off of work time and not close enough that a judge would deem it on work time.

    Secondly, weekends or just before the holidays supposedly allows employees to seek out support to potentially avoid a risk to the company (like I mentioned above).

    Thirdly, weekends or just before the holidays allows a period of time for supposed emotional cooling, which lowers risks to the company of the employee sabotaging their work, undermining anything, or creating security incidents.

      •  DdCno1   ( @DdCno1@beehaw.org ) 
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        910 days ago

        No, it’s not. Communist East Germany also had higher suicide rates during holidays - but it was a state secret there, because suicides couldn’t possibly be happening in the perfect “workers’ and peasants’ paradise”. They had the highest suicide rate in Europe, ahead of every capitalist country. Even performing research on the topic was forbidden.

        The East German suicide rate of 31 per 100k population would be the fourth highest in the world today. Compare it to modern-day capitalist Germany (8.3), USA (14.5) or even South Korea (21.2).