The Career Growth Podcast
Growing in your career can be a truly enriching experience, but it comes with it's own set of challenges and hurdles. Listen to Career Growth Evangelist, Teja Gudluru talk about simple and easy to use career hacks to manage hurdles and proven methods to grow in your career with ease and guaranteed results. If you are someone struggling with workplace politics, difficult co-workers and managers, having critical conversations, influencing for better appraisals or stuck in a role for too long, this is the place for you to listen to tips and tricks of the trade that we have come to call, Growth Hacks.
The Career Growth Podcast
Ep 02 - Managing Survivor guilt amidst lay-offs
The mass tech layoffs have not been easy on anyone. While those who were laid off are in a state of shock and confusion, those who survived are wondering, “Why them and not me? How will I face my friends who lost their jobs and I didn’t? How can I support them?”
This common response is called “Workplace Survivor Syndrome” or “Survivor Guilt” – feeling grief for someone else’s layoff. This feeling of “grief” is an outcome of anger, regret, loss of trust, uncertainty, denial and anxiety, which lingers on. As a result, there is an atmosphere of plummeting morale and performance within the organization.
If you survived the layoffs, there are high chances that you may be going through this survivor guilt. What are some of the signs and what should you do to manage it – listen to the podcast for the same.