Radio Shack – What Were You Thinking?
Never announce a reduction in staff two months before it is to be implemented. Never, unless you are closing a plant or other facility where you are required to announce it three months or so in advance.
Radio Shack annouced they planned to eliminate 450 jobs in September. Now imagine you worked at the corporate headquarters. Imagine how you would feel with the uncertainty. What would you do? Many will hit the job boards. Imagine the politics in play. Could Radio Shack lose people who they do not want to lose? Not only could they, they will! Imagine the morale.
Steve Pohlit, Business Consultant
