Intuit laid off 1,800 this summer and plans to rehire about as many.
Set aside the AI shift as part of the reason for the moment …
“More than 1,000 of the people being let go were not meeting performance expectations.”
Why were the non-performers only NOW let go?
It’s somewhat hard to believe that more than a 1,000 people – 6% or more of the workforce – suddenly became “non-performing” …
The problem will likely repeat in the future unless leaders/managers become “performing.”
Clearing out non-performers as part of a bigger layoff or focus shift is easy.
Leading and managing for high performance day-to-day is harder.
Not doing it is leadership and management failure, not worker failure … and those failing should be let go first before their employees.
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