Tech Layoffs Debate
Discussions center on corporate layoffs, distinguishing them from firings, company motivations for mass terminations, communication strategies, employee impacts, and whether they target underperformers or are business necessities.
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the layoffs are to fearmonger employees to stop asking for more, duh
Unless it's a thinly veiled layoff, in which case it makes perfect sense.
i don't see why this is any different than other layoffs, the company's perceived value in the would be ex-employees is not the same as the employees themselves. they let people go for various reasons, most of those reasons make sense to the business.
What I've seen happen in practice is the company position it as a layoff in the way you describe, but the folks let go tend to skew weaker.
laying off 10,000 people is hard workyou definitely dont want to be in the same building as the people you're laying off
Laying off lots of people isn't fun?
Mods please change the title. Layoffs and Firing aren't the same.
I 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.
Layoffs are bad -- this is affecting real people. WTF is wrong with you?
You don't normally 'lay off' people in that bracket.Either they leave or you fire them.Lay-offs are for people a lot lower on the totem pole.It's harsh, but that is how it is.