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> If you are a US-based employee who is impacted, you will receive an email to your Zoom and personal inboxes in the next 30 minutes that reads [IMPACTED] Depar
by password11 4y ago
> If you are a US-based employee who is impacted, you will receive an email to your Zoom and personal inboxes in the next 30 minutes that reads [IMPACTED] Departing Zoom: What You Need to Know.
This is the way to notify people of a layoff. Immediate binary yes/no.
Although there is no great way to do it, this layoff seems pretty respectful and well done.
- klabb3 4y agoI think the best way is: - invite everyone 2 weeks before to a townhall named [REQUIRED] An update on your employment - read the names of the fired people from a fancy envelope - when someone is called, their corp access is revoked in real time and they are kicked off the call
- deathanatos 4y agoHopefully they're also sending a NACK email too. Having been through it, let me tell you that's a gut wrenching n minutes to wait, though.
- MollyRealized 4y agoOkay, gotta ask for learning purposes: what's a NACK email? *EDIT: Ah. "Negative acknowledgement." In other words, someone hears from them regardless of whether they're impacted or not, i.e. [NOT IMPACTED].
- coffeebeqn 4y agoAt my first company they announced layoffs almost a month out but not who was impacted. A horrible idea that created a very paranoid environment for at least the next year
- sgerenser 4y agoThis is Microsoft right now, except make it ~2 months. Don’t know what the executives were thinking.
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- domber 4y agoAre you kidding? Passing the message that you're CANNED in the SUBJECT of the email is now considered respectful? No, it's robotic, and pathetic. They'll soon be writing these lovely messages to their employees, as well as you're fired emails with ChatGPT.
- birdyrooster 4y agoI found it particularly respectful the way he called them Zoomies as he was laying them off. It was even more classy and respectful when he went out of his way to mislead people about his compensation when the vast vast majority of his comp is RSU and he can easily borrow against them (worth tens of millions of $).
- culi 4y agoMany people here have worked in tech long enough to know that's how executive salaries often work in big tech companies and that the decrease in actual money flowing in isn't nearly as dramatic as "98%" sounds. I think everyone's just seen enough of these messages at this point that our standards have just been substantially lowered. It's at least something more than we've seen from the majority of other layoffs. The severance is decent too so it's hard to deny Zoom's handled it better at least relative to how others have