This 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.<p>Perhaps the author could read up on how his own employer does layoffs[0].<p>On a related note, Better.com had a very slick interface and was responsive in the beginning but suffered from generally incompetent loan advisors.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/business/media/vice-media-layoffs.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/business/media/vice-media...</a>
I 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.<p>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...<p>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!<p>So, I wish that everyone be smart enough to refuse being hired to work in one company that this guy is leading.
This rubs the wrong way given this context<p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ao3zs41aB_M" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ao3zs41aB_M</a>