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Business Insider’s journos are low quality. They will have heard about the quiet quitting movement and now the word quiet is in vogue and they’re applying it t
by simonswords82 4y ago
Business Insider’s journos are low quality. They will have heard about the quiet quitting movement and now the word quiet is in vogue and they’re applying it to all articles because they think it sounds good.
The reality is all layoffs are made quietly. It’s not something companies like to shout about
- raydiatian 4y agoQuietgate is coming can you feel it
- simonswords82 4y agoHeh. I wonder what else we’ll all be subjected to quietly in the coming years.
- raydiatian 4y agoHopefully not IRL ‘a quiet place.’
- vasco 4y agoOnline newspapers quietly dying due to nobody paying to get past paywalls would be my bet.
- twic 4y agoLoudcels are not ready to take the quietpill.
- shawabawa3 4y agoThat's not true, mass layoffs are usually announced and get a lot of press The difference here is the "layoffs" are that they are changing performance targets so more people get fired over the year instead of laying off a bunch of people at once
- lazyasciiart 4y agoNo, the reality is that layoffs have legally mandated public announcements, but pressuring a lot of employees into resigning all at the same time doesn't, which makes this a layoff that is quiet.
- reaperducer 4y agoI don't know how California works, but in some other states when you fire someone without cause, the company is on the hook for additional unemployment payments. Forcing 12,000 people to quit instead of firing them would save Facebook millions.
- grepfru_it 4y agoWould be awesome of those 12,000 didn't quit and just did the absolute minimum/nothing until they were actually fired. Wonder if facebook (or any company) would blink. But game theory dictates every employee thinks about self-preservation and would try to be the first one out.
- bretpiatt 4y agoThe maximum unemployment benefit in CA is $450/week[1], $100k/52 weeks is $1,923/week. Even if Meta paid the full amount of $5.4M per week the net is they are still saving tens/hundreds of millions with the reduction. [1] https://edd.ca.gov/en/Unemployment/UI-Calculator https://edd.ca.gov/en/Unemployment/UI-Calculator
- holografix 4y agoCorrect. IBM laid people off for years making sure to stay under the amount which would legally oblige them to report it publicly.