Jan 30, 2019
Anonymous employee
atmosol Response
7yThank you for your feedback. Management will be more aware of sharing exactly what is going on – even if puts one employee or a department in a bad light. The communication to the team prior to layoffs was based upon the belief and hope of the ‘promised sales’ closing. Sales is the lifeblood of any company. In the future, management will make sure that an ineffective sales person is let go earlier to preserve the rest of the company.
Communicating positive outcomes as to not ruin everyone’s holiday was not the correct thing to do and management is aware and apologetic. As for your accusations: We do not spy on our employees. The camera is for alarm surveillance and does not stream or pick up audio. We don’t read emails or messages and we definitely don’t have screen recording software. These are false accusations.
Trust is earned. The owner gave his trust to his salesperson and in turn there were no sales for 4 months. He believed what he was told and therefore did not layoff or cut benefits as most companies would have had to do. ‘…require detailed minutes of your daily activities…’ As a salesperson, the use of CRM to keep track of communication with leads, notes of conversations, etc. is standard practice. For billable employees, the use of software to log hours is also standard practice. It is on an honor system, no one is forced to use a timer that actually tracks every daily activity.
We are truly sorry that you felt you had to leave such a review. We are truly sorry we had to lay employees off. But an employee that is fired for nonperformance, that is normal business practice.