SINGAPORE: Dyson conducted a round of layoffs in Singapore on Tuesday ( Oct 1 ) in a” surprise” move that has left employees here feeling shocked and in “low morale”.
This comes about three weeks after the tech firm said Singapore, which serves as its world mind business, was” never explicitly impacted” by a worldwide reform that involved about 1, 000 job cuts in Britain.
The retrenchment exercise on Tuesday was done “very discreetly”, with those impacted receiving an email notifying them of a “one-on-one” meeting,  , said an employee who was laid off on Tuesday and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The room will have a HR representative there. Unfortunately, reason given ( was ) the job is redundant, and we need to pack our things and prepare to leave”, the employee said.  ,
” We wo n’t know who was called into the room… ( I ) saw lots of envelope”.
Those laid off were from the manufacturing and procurement departments, said another employee who also spoke to CNA anonymously. On Tuesday, both parties are unsure how many employees were let go.
One of the employees claimed that Dyson had previously conducted a round of layoffs in Johor Bahru, where it has a development center. Given how the company had announced it was increasing its investments in Singapore, Tuesday’s retrenchment exercise was unexpected.
” People are shocked and have low morale, as they are n’t sure when their turn might come”, said the employee, adding that it came as a” surprise”.
A Dyson spokesperson responded to inquiries from CNA with the following statement:” We constantly change the composition of our teams and take steps to ensure we have the right skills in the right places. Our goals in Singapore remain the same, and we anticipate that we will continue to expand there in the near future.
The company did not respond to other inquiries regarding the number of employees who were laid off on Tuesday, the types of job positions that were eliminated, and why, as well as how the company is assisting those who were impacted.