"A layoff gives managers the opportunity to fire people who they've wanted to fire for a while" This may be true sometimes but I have seen plenty of layoffs wh

"A layoff gives managers the opportunity to fire people who they've wanted to fire for a while" This may be true sometimes but I have seen plenty of layoffs where whole projects/departments got axed based on not very good information. A lot of C*O people make these decisions based on very flimsy information.