Tone Deaf and Heartless - Anonymous employee Korn Ferry Employee Review

The company has gone through at least four RIFs in the last two years, that I'm aware of. It could be more. They hire people with the intention of using their services for a finite amount of time, then get rid of them once they've gotten what they needed. The lay off process was cold and heartless, with my manager notifying me over Zoom by reading a script. HR was on the call as well, but utterly useless and unwilling to help. Trying to get her to respond to my questions via email and chat was like pulling teeth. To add insult to injury, the company is constantly posting tone-deaf "thought leadership" articles about layoffs where they try to position themselves as a company that would never resort to such measures, which is a gross misrepresentation and highly insulting to the thousands of people they've laid off in recent years. When a company goes through this many rounds of layoffs in such a short period of time, it's not a people problem. It's a business problem. Leadership has no idea what they're doing and none of them are being held accountable for poor revenue performance. Instead, the lower-level workers are paying the price, while the CEO continues to enjoy a massive bonus every year. He needs to go and so does his leadership team.