Nissan UK announced today they are freezing applications for voluntary redundancy because thay have been overwhelmed by the volume they have received. That's remarkable in itself (it must be a grest deal or not as enlightened a place to work as we all thought).
Compulsory redundancies have not been ruled out however. Neither has the use of cringe-worthy euphemisms for cutting jobs: "it remains the ... aim to manage the right-sizing activity at Sunderland on a voluntary basis."
Right-sizing? I really thought that this ugliness had passed into the folklore of corporate cowardliness.
If management really believe that right-sizing is about getting the business to the right size then we'd hear the term in times of growth too. I can't say I have.
Shame on you, Nissan. A company's language says a lot about its ethics. Perhaps there's no connection, but why are all these people queuing up to leave?
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