I was planning to post something today about our trip to Lesotho – which it turns out is the most amazing country, more on that next time – but as Autodesk Neuchatel employees have now received definitive communication regarding our future employment, it seems more appropriate to talk about that.
It has now been confirmed that the Neuchatel office is definitely going to close its doors. According to Swiss law, employees had a 2-week consultation period to find alternatives to closing the office and – in this case, more importantly – to negotiate a more favourable social plan for those impacted. Few people realistically expected the closure to be avoided, though, and – sure enough – that’s the news we received yesterday.
Many of you have sent expressions of concern and support over the last fortnight. It turns out that I’m one of the lucky ones: I’ve been offered the chance to work from home. This won’t impact my job in a significant way: for much of my…