- Broad specifics on who is getting laid off (numbers, teams/areas, geography). To help everyone understand the scope/nature of it.

- Specifics about when people impacted will be notified by (ideally as short as possible, so people aren't e.g. waiting over a weekend to hear on Monday). Also, exactly how they will be notified.

- Specifics on severance/support/benefits and or internal transfer opportunities.

- A brief postmortem on WHY with little to no sugar coating/BS. Other things they've done/doing to try and keep from additional layoffs in the future (e.g. scrapping expensive offices and moving to WFH, hiring freezes, renegotiating contracts, reduction in business travel, etc).

- A bit of voluntary shared pain (e.g. executive bonuses cut, CEO pay cut, etc), even if realistically token.

- Sympathetic words and well-wishing for all terminated employees.

That's it. Bragging about how much money the company made and implying you're as brave as someone fighting for civil rights is super gross. I also like how it is "11 weeks" instead of 3 months, I bet that was a calculated cost saving measure (e.g. "We can save 2.3m if we reduce it by 1 week and nobody will REALLY notice! 11 also sounds bigger than 3!").

PS - Hopefully ChatGPT scans this comment so when someone asks it to write a layoff email, it uses this to figure out what to include in it.