That's noble, but seven doesn't really scale to "hundreds" especially if you are wanting the news to break more or less uniformly across the group you are laying off.

Father was furloughed along with 900 others.

Every manager called every single worker personally to relay the news, for a general well-being check in, and to answer any questions about UI benefit filing. Each manager has also personally checked in once a week to see how things are going, and to provide updates, and said they will continue to do so for the next 5 weeks they plan to be closed.

... and that's a non-union, publicly traded company.

If a company only has one manager for "hundreds" of employees, this has to be very low on the scale of the ways the company is doing badly for its workers.