My company announced 5%(4000 headcount) layoff this week.
This itself is not so special. Same volume of restructuring was done also last year.
But what special is my closest colleague in Australia got impacted this time.
He has 2 month time to decide next step.
Might be selfish but this impact on me as well, and a lot.
Since he is the only co-worker having weekly call and we can have casual talk and joking as well.
And I don’t have those kind of friendly relations with other “foreign” colleagues.
I still have co-worker in other department or ex-team in Japan org.
But that’s a bit different.
I feel sort of depression by this news.