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Re:Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call by war1025 on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:51PM (#22708781)
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.
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Re:Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call by MrFoof on Saturday March 28, 2020 @12:04AM (#22709130)
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.

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Re:Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call by wpietri on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:17PM (#22708906)
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.
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