You also have to consider that the consultation process to manage the redundancies can take anywhere between 4-10 weeks in Europe (the French in particular have a convoluted system for this process which involves trade unions and bureaucracy and predictably takes three times longer than anywhere else). So I was put on notice of redundancy at the same time as people in Bellevue about six weeks ago but the discrepancies in the labour laws (from Europe to North America) will partly explain why it appears that Expedia is undertaking multiple rounds of redundancy.

You could potentially argue that the redundancies in November and now are different although I believe that both have come about as result of Expedia significantly reorganising itself rather than a desire to excise 5-6% of its workforce. It just so happens it was easier to get rid of the IT resources in November.