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> If you really care about making it easier for the person being fired, this is a MUST. Perhaps this is splitting hairs, but I see a round of layoffs as someth
by balls187 11y ago
> If you really care about making it easier for the person being fired, this is a MUST.
Perhaps this is splitting hairs, but I see a round of layoffs as something considerably different than being fired. Net-effect the same, but firing someone has a the connotation that it was for cause.
- davemel37 11y agoI can only speak to my own experience: but the the connotation you are looking for just doesn't exist. As long as some people are let go and others keep their jobs, people will assume there was a reason they got let go...not just because the company had to make layoffs. Short of committing a deliberate fire-able offense, being let go as part of a layoff feels exactly the same.
- balls187 11y agoExcept being fired for cause you are: * Unlikely to get a reference. * Unlikely to collect unemployment insurance. * Unlikely to get severance. * Unlikely be rehired in the future. Yes it may feel like the same, but they are very clearly two different things.
- davemel37 11y agoI think we are defining "cause" differently. Inam referrring to an underperformer being let go for financial reasons or someone not fitting into the culture - similar to a layoff but only impacting one person...you seem to be referring to someone who gets fired because they did something egregious.