Maybe I am. What's the difference and how does it apply to what I'm saying?

Because when you are laying people off and giving them a severance, you are taking more care of them than you would be if you were firing them. That's the entire basis of this comment thread.

Most of the employees in this announcement are in Europe, where there is no "firing" (i.e. at-will employment aka employer abuse).

There's only laying off with a severance and firing for cause, where firing for cause is by design <<super>> hard to do. And it's definitely not something that can be done to masses of people at once without all the government authorities coming to pay the offending company a visit ASAP.

> That's the entire basis of this comment thread.

Not if you figure out the entire context of this event.

You redefined firing to be whatever you want it to be. It's a bit nonsensical to assume all firings are employer abuse.