In AE it's also usual to have a comma following them, so "We had to come up with some way to cut our burn rate, e.g., lay off (i.e., fire) some of our workforc

In AE it's also usual to have a comma following them, so "We had to come up with some way to cut our burn rate, e.g., lay off (i.e., fire) some of our workforce; cut facilities (i.e., get out of our leases),..." The reasoning being that these expressions are "parenthetic and should be punctuated accordingly" The Elements of Style