Ask HN: Who is firing?
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Inspired by: "So, I figure if we're allowed to talk about who is hiring, why not the other way around? At the very least, we can get a pulse on those companies which smells like roses on the outside, and reek of something more earthy on the inside." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987)
If there's enough interest, I will have this bot auto-post on a monthly basis similar to whoishiring.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 66.5 ms ] threadThe Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is currently laying off over 100+ (union, management and contractor) IT folks from the Enterprise Technology Solutions (IT operations) and Testing teams. All of the affected positions are being transferred to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS - India based offshoring service company), with those who are affected being mandated to knowledge transfer with TCS up to the January 31, 2017 termination date.
While there have been internal assurances that no other teams are going to be outsourced in the near future, I wouldn't recommend applying for any IT based roles at OTPP.
Full disclosure - I currently work for, and am affected by this outsourcing.
http://www.benefitscanada.com/news/ontario-teachers-to-outso...
One interesting point is that Markham itself is a pretty popular "off-shoring" location for US businesses.
Anyhow I got a bit side tracked there, I hope you got decent notice and manage to land comfortably on your feet.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/12/nsw-government-repla...
>“Australia has real depth in IT skills so it is quite extraordinary for the NSW government to bring in 32 workers under 457 visas,” Mr Shoebridge said.
Anyone that has had to hire for technical roles in Australia can tell you it's really not this easy Australia definitely has depth but it doesn't have breadth and the highly skilled tech people are in such demand that they are rarely available for hiring. So unless you're hiring for a junior role you probably will have a very difficult time finding highly skilled employees. I'd still like to see more focus in getting juniors hired and trained though so that in a few years we can have more resources available at the mid to upper levels.
Side note I use to be a 457 and I never felt subservient in anyway either.
I used them for large events and always managed to find a solution to use their free tier.
A security startup that laid off 4 (of 12) employees the week before thanksgiving. This was in an effort to hire marketers for the product that was in part built by the 4 that were laid off.
They also took the Christmas bonuses and stock of those that were laid off and distributed them as incentive for the remaining employees to stay. There is a lot of political turmoil as far as I am told.