Redundancy 2 months into a new role
Hey all! Looking for advice on my current situation.
Just recently started the perfect role - working from home, double the salary of my last role with room to learn and grow. I only applied for this one job, did two interviews and was offered the role. Left my old job in April.
On Thursday after being there for 2
months, we got told the entire department is being reduced from 18 down to 4 roles (I won’t be kept as I’ve only just completed training). Just wondered if anyone had any experience of a company doing this so quickly after being hired? In fact, they hired a new person after me starting a couple of weeks ago and they are also being told they’re now facing redundancy.
The reason they’ve given us is “Due to the department not receiving the amount of work that returns on the amount of invested money”. Surely they knew this recently so why have they hired?
I’m back on the job search now but this is just extremely demoralising, I left my old job as I was promised it was such an exciting opportunity and the increase in salary. Is it worth putting this role on my CV? I have the documents to confirm the redundancy if any new employer questions my short time there. Myself and my family are really concerned about lack of incoming funds and how difficult it’ll be to get a new role.