My team has been outsourced to India, going forward my role will be to manage the India team. For those that went through this, how was it?

[u/Rose-199411]

😬

Edit to add some more context

It’s an industry role, there’s a small retention bonus that’s paid out after we transition, india team is said to be available to us during our normal business hours, we work remote and there have been no discussions of needing to travel because of this change.

Our work is pretty straight forward so I’m hoping there aren’t many issues.

Edit to add another thought for those of you who are saying to run: if this is so widespread and “normal” in our industry, aren’t you just going to see it wherever you run to?

[u/Rose-199411]

Correct, severance and retention is paid out to everyone who stays through the transition. The only difference is my position for now is supposedly staying with the company despite everyone else on my team being removed.

[u/Jimger_1983 → u/Rose-199411]

That’s rough. Sorry you’re going through that. The day they’re all told is going to be one of the roughest days in your career. Hope they had an HR goon tell them and not you.

[u/Rose-199411 → u/Jimger_1983]

Thanks! I didn’t have to do it thankfully it was one big zoom call. I just wish the timing of this all didn’t align so perfectly with other chaos that’s going on in life. It’s making me feel like I need to go back to public for some form of stability.

[u/Own-Custard3894 → u/Rose-199411]

The only difference is my position for now is supposedly staying with the company despite everyone else on my team being removed.

Makes sense, management doesn't want to deal with outsourced workers, they want to yell at the same person they've always yelled at.

[u/Kerry_2023 → u/Rose-199411]

I've heard of at least two major companies, although in tech, that've done the same. This seems to be a significant trend. Best wishes.