The hidden costs of surviving a company retrenchment | Work It

Retrenchment doesn't only affect the people who leave. It can also reshape team dynamics, workloads and career plans for those who are left behind. Nat Fetalvero and Gerald Tan speak with Desmond Aw and Ashwin Lee about how they navigated uncertainty after their teammates got laid off and what they learnt about career resilience and workplace relationships. Highlights: 00:00 Intro 02:09 The layoff nobody saw coming 03:12 The day the office went silent 05:40 Pushed into "survival mode" 07:40 Rethinking career resilience after layoffs 10:48 Can a good manager save morale? 12:28 The sign it was time to leave 14:51 Survived the first round, but not the second 17:49 The one thing he wished he'd done 19:15 Ask Work It: Handling a boss who overshares ======= #WorkItPodcast #retrenchment #workplace #cnapodcasts Subscribe to our channel here: https://cna.asia/youtubesub Visit our website: https://cna.asia Download our app: https://cna.asia/app Get our editors' picks of stories via chat apps: Telegram: https://cna.asia/telegram WhatsApp: https://cna.asia/whatsapp Follow us on these platforms: https://www.facebook.com/channelnewsasia https://www.instagram.com/channelnewsasia https://www.tiktok.com/@channelnewsasia