There is a conversation that most professionals avoid having with themselves, and it usually begins the moment someone else’s decision lands in their inbox. It arrives as a restructure, a merger, or an announcement about a “difficult trading period”. An organisation that promised growth suddenly declares that it must “streamline for efficiency”, which is corporate poetry for the fact that some of you will not be here next quarter.
Here is the uncomfortable truth. You can be loyal, punctual, exceptional and indispensable, and still be dispensable.Redundancy is rarely a verdict on your talent. It is a verdict on a balance sheet you never saw and on decisions made in rooms you were never invited into.Businesses go bankrupt, departments are outsourced, and entire industries are disrupted by a piece of software with a friendly name. None of it asks your permission first.
The question, therefore, is not whether you are good
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