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Re:Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call by chollida1 on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:32PM (#29462784)
I agree that you outline why its hard to layoff so many people.

Let's asume you were just laid off, you and everyone else now have 5-10 questions that are specific to you that you want answered right away.

How do you do that in a 500 person zoom call?

With one on one meetings, this is trivial.

Now you've setup a situation where you still need 500 individual meetings. I"m not sure a global zoom call did them any favours or helped them at all here.

Re:Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call by gruez on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:38PM (#29462879)
> I"m not sure a global zoom call did them any favours or helped them at all here.

the benefit is that everyone knows upfront whether they were fired or not, rather than having rumors swirl around the office for a week.