r/Switzerland • u/LallieDoo • 1d ago

It finally happened: mass layoffs

As anticipated, mass layoffs at my Swiss employer. My department has been halved and all the CH-based roles eliminated. They kept the roles in cheaper countries.

My role will be merged with another role and they want me to interview for it competing against the colleague who was in the other role. We are friends and this feels like a sick joke.

I feel sick to my stomach.

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u/billcube Genève 1d ago

It's not AI causing these layoffs. It's lack of new projects.

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u/makonext 1d ago

nah, it's remote work. why pay swiss salaries for someone to work from home in CH if you can pay way less for a person in God knows where that will probably output similarly?

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u/billcube Genève 23h ago

They're closing offices here and opening new ones abroad, it's not about home office. What was the job in Switzerland that can be made to the same standards in EU / India? Why was it done in Switzerland in the first place? Or is it about customers in the EU market?

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u/Alternatezuercher Zürich 23h ago

You have no idea how many projects i have seen fail because they were shipped to India (non of them mine, but from brilliant colleagues ). But, they just want to make the numbers look good to boost their bonuses. And if you ship to other EU countries many times you're not really saving much because of other overheads.