I think the best way is:

- invite everyone 2 weeks before to a townhall named [REQUIRED] An update on your employment

- read the names of the fired people from a fancy envelope

- when someone is called, their corp access is revoked in real time and they are kicked off the call

Well I thought your comment was amusing. It should also be held in front of a live studio audience and involve several elaborate dance numbers.

HR: Knock knock Employee: Who's there? HR: Not you anymore.

Hopefully they're also sending a NACK email too.

Having been through it, let me tell you that's a gut wrenching n minutes to wait, though.

Okay, gotta ask for learning purposes: what's a NACK email?

*EDIT: Ah. "Negative acknowledgement." In other words, someone hears from them regardless of whether they're impacted or not, i.e. [NOT IMPACTED].

At my first company they announced layoffs almost a month out but not who was impacted. A horrible idea that created a very paranoid environment for at least the next year

This is Microsoft right now, except make it ~2 months. Don’t know what the executives were thinking.

Are you kidding? Passing the message that you're CANNED in the SUBJECT of the email is now considered respectful?

No, it's robotic, and pathetic.

They'll soon be writing these lovely messages to their employees, as well as you're fired emails with ChatGPT.

> No, it's robotic, and pathetic.

Which way do you feel its the best way to be notified you're being fired?

I mean saying "FIRED" in the subject line is horrible.

I didn't asked which way you didn't liked. I asked which way do you feel its the best way to be notified you're being fired.

I'm sure there is no good way of getting the news.

A quick reveal is way better than say, managers calling on people one by one, making everyone anxious throughout the day.

I found it particularly respectful the way he called them Zoomies as he was laying them off. It was even more classy and respectful when he went out of his way to mislead people about his compensation when the vast vast majority of his comp is RSU and he can easily borrow against them (worth tens of millions of $).

Many people here have worked in tech long enough to know that's how executive salaries often work in big tech companies and that the decrease in actual money flowing in isn't nearly as dramatic as "98%" sounds. I think everyone's just seen enough of these messages at this point that our standards have just been substantially lowered.

It's at least something more than we've seen from the majority of other layoffs. The severance is decent too so it's hard to deny Zoom's handled it better at least relative to how others have