CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
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Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#2This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat.
Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0].
On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface and was responsive in the beginning but suffered from generally incompetent loan advisors.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/business/media/vice-media...
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#3This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat. Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0]. On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface a…
You don’t think laying off nearly 1000 people en masse with a video is cruel and unusual? I do. This is a terrible look for the company in my opinion and I’m glad this article exposed it.
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#4I hate this trend of some people in power pretending to have remorse and be considered as victims or powerless when in fact all of this results of their decisions.
Nothing would have prevented to do that in a better way, with individual or little group meetings. Maybe not firing them "effective immediately" but respecting them not as throwable useless resources...
But probably it is easier for the CEO and it's managing team to do it like that than spending days and hours in individual meetings... But just remember that these 900 persons were not hired in a mass zoom call!
So, I wish that everyone be smart enough to refuse being hired to work in one company that this guy is leading.
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#5This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat. Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0]. On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface a…
You don’t think laying off nearly 1000 people en masse with a video is cruel and unusual? I do. This is a terrible look for the company in my opinion and I’m glad this article exposed it.
I would rather be told in the privacy of my house then in a office and have to walk by all the other folks in the other meeting.
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#6This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat. Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0]. On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface a…
There’s a much better way to do this and while it’s time-consuming it’s the right thing to do. You have their immediate manager reach out individually with an HR Business Partner on the call to help manage the conversation and answer immediate questions about severance, immigration etc. May need to some group calls where whole teams are let go but as personal as possible is the goal. I’ve seen it done this way where there more than 1000 so it’s doable with large RIFs. By doing it this way you also maintain a chance they’ll come back when you’re doing better and that you won’t risk expensive wrongful termination claims.
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#7This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat. Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0]. On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface a…
> Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs
They did it the normal way, individual private notification. It would be remiss not to mention it afterward at the next all-hands meeting.
> They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat.
They didn't hire anyone on a one-way broadcast-only video conference with 900 attendees.
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#8This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat. Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0]. On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface a…
You don’t think laying off nearly 1000 people en masse with a video is cruel and unusual? I do. This is a terrible look for the company in my opinion and I’m glad this article exposed it.
For what its worth, I've seen something even more tacky than this. A company rented a ballroom of a hotel and had 2 meetings. 9am: Lay off several hundred people. 10am: Celebration for those still employed. Some people designated for 9am showed up late. It was very awkward.
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#9I hate this trend of some people in power pretending to have remorse and be considered as victims or powerless when in fact all of this results of their decisions. Nothing would have prevented to do that in a better way, with individual or little group meetings. Maybe not firing them "effective immediately" but respecting them not as throwable useless resources... But probably it is easier for the CEO and it's managi…
Nothing would have prevented tearful management from managing better over the past year. Managing better is hard work. But it is more exciting to chase the next funding round.
Re: CEO Feels Terrible About Laying Off 900 Employees over Video Chat
#10This article is reaching. While layoffs do suck, and the CEO could have more eloquently empathized with the terminated employees, there is no easy way to do this. With remote work, you live by the sword and die by the sword. They’ll hire you over video chat and fire you over video chat. Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0]. On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface a…
You don’t think laying off nearly 1000 people en masse with a video is cruel and unusual? I do. This is a terrible look for the company in my opinion and I’m glad this article exposed it.
Definitely not cruel if handled correctly. Provide compensation and support post work for finding a new job. It can be handled super humanely.
So you are the CEO and can't visit anyone physically for obvious reasons. How do you propose you do it?