> No way is a laid off employee going to actually help in the last 2 weeks. To add a data point: Not only have my laid-off colleagues helped to finish and smoo

> No way is a laid off employee going to actually help in the last 2 weeks. To add a data point: Not only have my laid-off colleagues helped to finish and smoothly hand over tasks, but we are now actively rehiring some of them back. To be fair, the company didn't pull any BS like e.g. Cloudflare telling laid-off employees that they are underperformers. In our case, it was crystal clear that we've lost clients and don't have enough work and money for salaries to keep everyone and that that's the only single reason they are being laid off.