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At this point a firing or layoff might as well just be a text message: "You're fired. K, thx, bye". Any words beyond that are just fluff anyway. To the person g

by brk 1y ago

At this point a firing or layoff might as well just be a text message: "You're fired. K, thx, bye". Any words beyond that are just fluff anyway. To the person getting let go, it really doesn't matter if the decision caused the CEO to get ulcers, or if it was the easiest decision ever. Executive teams only take responsibility in words.

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Someone1234 1y ago
I understand your point, but employees do need to know a lot of important information that cannot be communicated like that e.g. health/dental benefit lapse, severance, references, etc. It is actually really important in mass layoffs to have this information immediately to hand.
- xienze 1y ago
  They email you said documents or a link to an employee services website.
- paxys 1y ago
  I’d much rather get a link to all this information than sit while an HR drone recites it to me for 10 minutes.
drozycki 1y ago
Why bother with a text? Just lock them out of their accounts. They'll figure it out. The termination ritual is for the people that stay and who the company may wish to hire in the future.
- abyssin 1y ago
  Is this sarcasm?
gosub100 1y ago
according to this, a 2024 tesla layoff just locked people out the building: https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-staff-locked-out-layoffs https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-staff-locked-out-layoffs
gtirloni 1y ago
Humans don't work like that. Empathy is a thing.