Got laid off about a month ago. Was on my state’s job service website and saw 4-5 jobs in my former department. They were all for “lead analyst”, “lead rep”, and “senior rep”. These “lead” and “senior” positions didn’t exist before in my department (they did at other locations). Part of the reason for this might be to raise morale. Morale went pretty low among our department managers when they realized they were stuck in their jobs (as well as the specialists and representatives) for quite a long time. That’s because a position that supervised the vice-presidents came open when that person was moved to a different area of the bank. Instead of the job being listed as a job opening so the vice-presidents would be able to compete for it, someone was just appointed instead. Now the analysts (which serve as our managers) realized there would be no open vice-president slot to apply for, the specialists wouldn’t be applying for the recently vacated analyst position, and the reps wouldn’t be able to apply for the open specialist position.
Here’s where my question comes in. Since my former department didn’t face as many layoffs over the last few years because the vice-president was able to use losses to count against layoffs because of persons who got hired in other parts of the company (or completely left the company), will the regular analyst and rep positions that will soon be vacated because the internal applicant was chosen and hired as a lead/senior analyst (or rep) count as a job loss already as future layoffs are pushed by higher management?