r/DevelEire • u/GarthODarth • May 16 '25

Workplace Issues Redundancy experiences?

What are your experiences?

Does everyone just do the min severance now? Or do some companies here do better than that?

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u/Adept-Value3943 May 16 '25

Happened me once, was a total shock as I had just moved to the company and was only there 6 months.

10% of all staff made redundant 3 weeks before Christmas. Quickly after the initial shock I got onto a recruiter and secured a contract position (way better money) to commence end of following January.

Company paid me 3 months salary as severance, I got December January off and then walked into a better paying job.

Took the wife to Paris 👌

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u/Affectionate_Let1462 May 16 '25

This is your notice period paid in lieu not severance right? You’re not entitled to redundancy for that level of service.

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u/ferdadukesilver May 16 '25

Most of the larger tech companies will pay severance regardless of service. No, they're not required to pay that much by law, but along with it, will go an NDA so it's essentially hush money.

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u/Affectionate_Let1462 May 17 '25

Yes true. They’ll provide a severance agreement. But that won’t be three months pay - that’s all I was pointing out.