I came back from parental leave in January. My manager welcomed me back, told me the team had missed me, said we'd ease back in gradually. Six weeks later I was in the layoff rou…
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I have a progressive condition requiring specific workplace adjustments. Cisco were accommodating when I joined. Documented, agreed, in place. When the restructuring list was dra…
ITV has won awards for its diversity commitments. They publish targets. They have statements. They do the right things publicly. When the redundancies came, several of the roles …
I've been at BT for twenty-two years. I'm over fifty. I have been in three separate "at risk" consultation rounds in the past four years, and each time I have survived — so far — …
Amazon's RTO mandate wasn't about collaboration. It was a way to reduce headcount without conducting formal layoffs, without paying severance, without justifying individual decisi…
I came back from maternity leave in September. My manager said all the right things. My performance history was strong. My return plan was in place. Six weeks later I was told my…
I was hired explicitly as a full-time remote employee. It was in my contract. It was one of the reasons I took the role. Eighteen months later, a new policy required in-office pr…
I led diversity and inclusion programmes for one of Google's product divisions. Mentorship pipelines, sponsorship initiatives, HBCUs partnerships. Things that were genuinely worki…