All I Wanted Was a Honest Conversation About the Merger
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All I Wanted Was a Honest Conversation About the Merger
The announcement arrived on a humid Thursday: our studio would merge with a larger publisher, and titles would overlap by winter. All I wanted was a honest conversation about the merger, yet what leadership offered was a webinar heavy on synergy vocabulary.
What employees feared was silent redundancy dressed as integration. What integration sometimes meant in practice was relocated managers speaking in slides nobody believed. This gap we must address, my editor said during lunch, fronting the problem before it hardened into rumour.
It was rumour that filled the kitchenette when official channels went quiet. It was quiet leadership that eroded trust faster than any rumour's content. Rarely have I seen morale fall so quickly without a single confirmed layoff.
What confirmed layoffs would trigger is statutory consultation. What consultation requires is timelines lawyers were still drafting.
