>I think "made redundant" has been the British term for laid off for quite a while; though this is, IME, far less common in American usage. A big part of the p

>I think "made redundant" has been the British term for laid off for quite a while; though this is, IME, far less common in American usage. A big part of the plot in the British Office tv show was watching Ricky Gervais fumble his department through a merger that ultimately made him redundant. He kept assuring the employees there would be no redundancies. Zenefits using the term redundancies may just be colloquial British phrasing. They've got much greater PR problems now that make the semantics of layoffs vs redundancies seem a minor concern.