After Layoffs, There's Survivor's Guilt

"If your company has just gone through layoffs and you didn’t lose your job, you might feel relieved. Or you might feel so horrible, you almost wish you didn’t work there anymore, either.  Last week was brutal for the workplace, with U.S. companies - like Caterpillar, Boeing, Sprint Nextel and Target - cutting more than 80,000 jobs all told. Losing your paycheck in a recession is certainly awful, and those who hold on to their jobs are no doubt better off than their fallen colleagues.  But watching colleagues pack their things and go - and dealing with guilt that it wasn’t you, anxiety that you might be next, exhaustion from the extra work you must take on and even envy of those who get to leave such a sullen environment - that’s not much cause for celebration..."
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Source: Time Business