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Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce by mulmen on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:45PM (#18888953)
From the article: "SpaceX is offering a minimum of eight weeks’ pay and other benefits to laid-off workers, according to Shotwell’s email. The company will also provide assistance with career coaching, resume help and job searches."

So SpaceX is giving employees two months to focus their full efforts on finding their next job. This seems less cruel than telling them they will lose their jobs and then expecting them to keep working.

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Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce by SeanBoocock on Friday January 11, 2019 @09:00PM (#18889026)
That need not just be charity on SpaceX's part. The circumstances of the layoff sounds like it would trigger the WARN act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini.... If so, 60 days notice is a legal requirement, not beneficence on SpaceX's part.
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Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @05:21PM (#18893619)
The notice is a requirement.

Not requiring them to do any work whatsoever for that time is beneficence.

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Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce by cyberferret on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:51PM (#18888984)
That is FAR less cruel, and more in line with how most companies handle a genuine redundancy.

My response above was to do with the fact that employees who were NOT terminated were also subjected to the psychological trauma of spending the weekend guessing whether they had a job come Monday. Not the best way to keep morale high.

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