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I've had to do it as a leader...hundreds laid off. I flew around the globe and had a lot of face to face meetings.

Not really something to encourage at this time.

Physical one on ones, yes. Conference call mass layoffs, with misleading subject lines though...that's just lazy and disrespectful.

Orchestrating 400ish one on ones via Zoom wouldn't have been that much effort. I assume they could have spread it across several leaders.

Edit: From their careers page..."while prioritizing a culture that celebrates diversity, inclusion, and integrity"

How about calling an "all hands" meeting and telling the employees who are staying to sneak out to lunch? Been there.

Work everyone hard until that last day. Do it on the last day of the month so they have no health insurance the next day.

Been there.

It's especially awful when it's a company that pushed some agenda about integrity, loyalty, etc.

The golden rule is the more they talk about it the less they have it.