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Business Insider’s journos are low quality. They will have heard about the quiet quitting movement and now the word quiet is in vogue and they’re applying it to all articles because they think it sounds good.

The reality is all layoffs are made quietly. It’s not something companies like to shout about

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That's not true, mass layoffs are usually announced and get a lot of press

The difference here is the "layoffs" are that they are changing performance targets so more people get fired over the year instead of laying off a bunch of people at once

No, the reality is that layoffs have legally mandated public announcements, but pressuring a lot of employees into resigning all at the same time doesn't, which makes this a layoff that is quiet.

I don't know how California works, but in some other states when you fire someone without cause, the company is on the hook for additional unemployment payments.

Forcing 12,000 people to quit instead of firing them would save Facebook millions.

Would be awesome of those 12,000 didn't quit and just did the absolute minimum/nothing until they were actually fired. Wonder if facebook (or any company) would blink. But game theory dictates every employee thinks about self-preservation and would try to be the first one out.

The maximum unemployment benefit in CA is $450/week[1], $100k/52 weeks is $1,923/week. Even if Meta paid the full amount of $5.4M per week the net is they are still saving tens/hundreds of millions with the reduction.

[1] https://edd.ca.gov/en/Unemployment/UI-Calculator

Correct. IBM laid people off for years making sure to stay under the amount which would legally oblige them to report it publicly.

Quietgate is coming can you feel it

Loudcels are not ready to take the quietpill.

Heh. I wonder what else we’ll all be subjected to quietly in the coming years.

Online newspapers quietly dying due to nobody paying to get past paywalls would be my bet.

Hopefully not IRL ‘a quiet place.’

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