> Have you ever been laid off from a job for reasons that were not related to your performance?
I haven't been laid off, but we did have some small layoffs this year. After the second one, while no specifics were stated about who was laid off, managers were told the selection criteria included looking for knowledge overlap and seeing who could be lost without losing knowledge. That basically explains my team: the one person we lost had fairly deep knowledge in only a single system, while two others had shallower knowledge in the same system and knowledge in other systems. I'm sure knowledge depth wouldn't have stood out in the performance review documents HR has, so the person we lost probably would have looked redundant to them, even though I suspect that person was trying to position themselves as indispensable.
I haven't been laid off, but we did have some small layoffs this year. After the second one, while no specifics were stated about who was laid off, managers were told the selection criteria included looking for knowledge overlap and seeing who could be lost without losing knowledge. That basically explains my team: the one person we lost had fairly deep knowledge in only a single system, while two others had shallower knowledge in the same system and knowledge in other systems. I'm sure knowledge depth wouldn't have stood out in the performance review documents HR has, so the person we lost probably would have looked redundant to them, even though I suspect that person was trying to position themselves as indispensable.