One of the largest banks in Australia apologized to the employees who found that they were fired via an automatic email, asking them to hand over their laptops back.
Bruce Rush of ANZ’s retail banking said that it was “not our intention to share such sensitive news with you in this way” because the firm cuts jobs in its retail banking business.
The bank said the email was sent to some employees before the error before the schedule. It said that it has stopped sending emails and employees have been personally spoken.
The Financial Sector Union stated that email caused the “nervousness and crisis” and forcing the company through “chaotic motion of change”.
Union President Wendy Streets said that the changes made by the bank were not consulted, saying that “ANZ should improve”.
Describing the “bottled” episode as “disgusting”, Ms. Streets said, “speed and cost-cutting cannot come at the cost of dignity and respect for workers.”
Mr. Rush wrote to the employees in an email: “Unfortunately, these emails indicate a exhaust date for some of our colleagues, before we can share their results with them.”
ANZ said that once it was realized that the email was sent by mistake, he apologized to the employees and called a virtual meeting to raise any question on the matter. It said that it also bought formal conversations about their roles with employees.
ANZ said that, during changes in the structure of its organization, it was committed to the employees to behave with dignity and respect.
Mr. Rush wrote to the employees in his email, “It was not our intention to share such sensitive news in this way, and I apologize unconditionally.”
The bank’s chief executive officer Noono Matos allegedly told media outlets that the step was “uncertain”, “deeply disappointing”, and that the bank was now investigating the incident.
This is not the first time a large company has been criticized, the way he told the staff that he was fired.
In 2021, 900 employees were fired in an online zoom call by their boss Vishal Garg, who are better of the American mortgage firm, who is better, Later admitted that it was a bang and badly handled,
