John Challenger Company Quotations

No company or boss can promise you the company will remain the same (forever). You have to realize you may be back in the job market at any time.

I don't know what company would announce cuts and then not take them all, ... Not only would Wall Street be breathing down their neck, but it would leave workers under a cloud that more cuts must be coming. I don't think they go into these announcements very lightly.

It can't hurt to talk with an attorney if you feel your severance program is wanting, or if you feel you've been wronged, ... That attorney can then address those issues with the company and act as your agent.

We see the same thing with job titles. People feel like the company didn't appreciate them or the job they did deserved a higher title, so they change the title.

Even if raises and bonuses are below what they were four or five years ago...rewarding employees who have brought the company through tough times is accepted by more and more companies,

The big question is how many workers will accept the terms. Too few and the company will be forced to fire workers; too many and the company could be forced to refuse some people's wishes to leave.

There really was no way to predict where the successful strands would come in the e-world. If you take a company like Yahoo, they got there early, with a lot of money, and were able to go out and hire the very best people.

There's also more room when an individual poses some kind of litigation threat to the company over any of the protected kinds of situations like discrimination against age, gender or race, ... That kind of potential exposure to litigation can sometimes be extra leverage for a person to bump up their package.

It's a sign of company maturation as it begins to focus on its core areas.

It's a good sign in the face of all these tech cuts, ... I'll bet they can really access great talent right now. To bring that many people into the company when pickings are really good, it should be a real lift for the company.

It's taken the company losing $10 billion for the jam to begin to break.

The normal mode of merging is you buy a company and condense the headquarters and the duplicative operations, ... Now, most companies are expanding so rapidly that they need to keep the other company's employees to meet the needs of that expansion.