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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by JKCalhoun on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:01PM (#33534484)
To be sure, laying off employees would be not be easy. Imagine if these were people you had lunch with, chatted with in the office every day, knew their husbands, wives....
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by at-fates-hands on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:14PM (#33535632)
Do you think Zuck was that close with any of the 11,000 people who were laid off?

If it was a small startup (been there done that) then yeah, when you see people day-to-day, and get to know them and their lives outside of work? Really hard to fire people, knowing how it will affect the other people in their lives.

A multi-national, multi-billion dollar company with 80,000+ employees? I'm not so sure.

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