You can’t assume that recruiting has been told that layoffs are coming. Likely they are in the dark intentionally. A hiring freeze would be news that could ne

You can’t assume that recruiting has been told that layoffs are coming. Likely they are in the dark intentionally. A hiring freeze would be news that could negatively affect stock price for a well known public company. Think of layoffs as a controlled PR burn, you don’t want to go set off a bunch of little random fires ahead of the big event that might burn out of control.