In my experience, unless you lay off a key person, layoffs tend to generate a lot of drama for a day or two and then things quiet down. It's a short, temporary

In my experience, unless you lay off a key person, layoffs tend to generate a lot of drama for a day or two and then things quiet down. It's a short, temporary pain that hopefully can be justified with real numbers. Cutting perks signals a permanent change in how they approach things like that, and is really hard to justify since in every single case I've seen it, perk cutoff is highly targeted at the rank and file and execs still get catered lunches during meetings, etc.