Potential impact of no-layoff pledge in technology partnerships

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow, organizations are having a significant impact on their economic returns. Amid this extreme uncertainty, some global companies have stepped forward to pledge no-layoff policy to ensure job-security for their employees.

While this is a highly appreciated initiative, these companies would eventually cut-down on their technology investments and compromise their hiring activities for the year. High investment projects are expected to be deprioritised creating a tremendous delay/impact on planned technology partnerships

Technology service providers are going the extra mile for their clients across all industries to help them recover and grow again. Strengthening clients by addressing the need-of-the-hour solutions like remote collaboration tools, secure endpoint solutions and cloud engineering can lead to long-term engagements.

Draup has been tracking the global enterprises that are embracing the no-layoff pledge. This shows the noble gesture of the companies towards employees. TSPs need to be aware of potential sales engagement areas and devise their COVID-19 propositions when reaching out to these enterprises.

Some of these enterprises are: