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> without prior notice or any change in contract terms Pretty sure it's within their contractual rights to deny people access to the office for any reason or n

• alxlaz 4y ago
  > Pretty sure it's within their contractual rights to deny people access to the office for any reason or no reason at all? Of course it is. The point I am making is that it's extremely bad management to handle layoffs and firing like that. You have the team leads schedule an appointment with the people who have to be let go. They tell them they are being let go, effective from X, with such and such terms (including access rights if they're in any way more specific than "you can't come to the office after X"). You have them thank them for their work and offer them a recommendation if they need it. This isn't some advanced HR management guru advice, it's common sense that should be standard adult behaviour. Telling people who you have not yet fired that they can't come to the office anymore, possibly minutes before they come in to work, but also insisting that they go home so they can get the email that they've been fired is just about the worst way to handle it. There's a potentially infinite set of actions that are within a company's contractual rights to do. Not all of them are okay.