Our team consists of about 15 developers, we basically act as in house dev ops and think tank for our company. Our performance was fine until nowrecently, but slowly it started to decline, and so did our creative resources.
Whoever had potential to get promoted or refresh their skills did so a long time ago, when management warned team about decommissionour lack of a future. Our team is comprised of senior developers who specialize in technology that is no longer used actively by our company.
In other words, this team needs do not to applyis no longer required and I've been tasked with laying off the team, this is the first time I got tasked with handling a layoff.
How do I prepare the team for lay off?
Additional details:
- Team is not fired because of age, it is just that there is correlation that older devs were more likely to refuse retraining and were less enthusiastic to pursue promotion.
- Technologies listed are obsolete in company context, our c/c++ and java codebase became so small that it is not worth to maintain in house team.
- These people are already de-facto fired, "preparing for layoff" is in context of cushioning backlash and negative publicity for company. And also making fired employees less dissatisfied.
