"The term firing feels targeted, while the phrase stealth layoffs is much broader, and that's how these tactics are used," says Emily Rose McRae, senior director analyst at Gartner.
"Why now? First off there's a productivity and growth problem in the UK... employers are using these tactics - introducing higher performance targets, firmer management - on the basis that if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen," says Claire Taylor-Evans.
"Employers know how exposed they are to claims so will cynically seek to squeeze individuals out in more nuanced, passive-aggressive, and ultimately damaging ways," she notes.
"It's something we're seeing more of at scale post-Covid... may be used when an organization wants to avoid announcing layoffs or simply to separate the wheat from the chaff," says Claire Taylor-Evans.
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