No loyalty to long term employees - Anonymous StarTech.com Employee Review

Recent layoffs have really put things in a new perspective. Understandable that things had to change, but most other companies try to weather the storm by either looking for government assistance for wages, or taking a 10% wage cut across the company with a 30% wage cut for Executives, but that wasn't done here. Putting 20% of your company on "temporary layoff" for up to 35 weeks after a month of above average sales revenue and a couple of weeks of below average sales is a pretty quick and rash decision. To see the number of employees that have 5-15 years of tenure at the organization just put out of a job with no payout of vacation or severance is horrible. It really looks like a lot of these employees were laid off due to their long term employment and the fact that they would be up for a large severance package, so the decision was made to remove them by "temporarily" laying them off. Nobody will be able to weather a 35 week layoff with no pay and only getting CERB or EI to compensate. This looks like letting people go hoping that they will find another job and just go away so that there is no payout of severance which would save the company thousands of dollars. No loyalty to those that stuck with the company over the tough years and spoke so highly of the company over those times. It's doubtful that any of the tenured employees would be comfortable in returning to a company that so quickly discarded them when times got difficult. At least pay them out!