Re:How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom
by heartbeats on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:20AM
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But none of that is needed. They don't work for the company, and the company has no reason to waste thousands of dollars per employee on this.
We're now entering a recession with mass unemployment, so any company, no matter how shitty, will be able to pick up the cream of the crop for pennies on the dollar.
Re:How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom
by heavenlyblue on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:37AM
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Blocking someone’s laptop right now saves you 0 money.
As a matter of fact it puts you in a position where everyone you just fucked over is willing to take extra steps to make every little bit of communication harder and less efficient.
I would not be surprised that half of these people are going to start replying to their messages at literally the end of the time specified by the contract.
Good luck getting those laptops back
These people being laid off spent a portion of their lives working for the company. They might have some personal contacts they'd like to get from their former colleagues, additional information since our healthcare is absurdly tied to our employment, as well as some level of understanding as to why they're being let go.
To appeal to your purely non-empathetical side, it also is negative PR for the company and might be a deterrent for future prospective employees to know that this company likes to handle mass layoffs in a "single, atomic operation."