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What's the difference between fired and laid off? Fired is for bad performance/professional errors and laid off is because of downsizing, right?

• robotresearcher 8y ago
  Yes. In many countries being laid off is called being made redundant, which is more descriptive. Redundancy means they are axing your role rather than yourself.
  • baud147258 8y ago
    Thank you. I'm not a native speaker, so I'm usually mixing close enough expression/words.
    • bluGill 8y ago
      This is one case were I would expect even native speakers to not fully know the difference.