> these 900 persons were not hired in a mass zoom call! By hundreds of people, not directly by CEO. I don't know if pushing the layoff responsibility to the m

> these 900 persons were not hired in a mass zoom call! By hundreds of people, not directly by CEO. I don't know if pushing the layoff responsibility to the manager is better. > Nothing would have prevented to do that in a better way, with individual or little group meetings Disagree. Your friend is laid off and you have a meeting with CEO next? The rumour and anticipation will wreck everybody. This could be dangerous for company itself in terms of security. Not saying what CEO did is the best. I don't have a better solution to firing people, but yours is definitely worse.