Once a layoff is declared you get paid for the remainder time plus often a severance package (about 6-12 months of salary in total is customary). You are expected to work these 3 months, though, just like you would work for 3 months (and get paid) if you decide to charge jobs.
In practice it means working with people who will leave a company soon is pretty common, having these people as your bosses, as your subordinates, see them at company social gatherings etc etc is all part of working culture. They aren’t perceived as a threat to business or to company morale. Handover of responsibilities, knowledge transfer, hiring or training a replacement: all these processes tend to spread out gradually over months, and the resulting transition is often pretty painless.
It’s a stark contrast to US business practice and people working across the ocean or relocating from one continent to the other need time to adapt.
Europeans pointing such differences on a website does not necessarily constitute “triggering”. If you knew all of this already, great. But someone reading this thread may learn about it for the first time, and there’s no downsides to sharing the knowledge.
But suddenly, when the debate is whether it's being so paranoid about disgruntled employees nuking prod or stealing IP during layoffs instead of handling a transition gracefully, that's suddenly enters the domain of nationalism and it's no longer the "right" kind of rant to have?
Yeah sometimes people will use unnecessary direct language, which btw is also a cultural thing (see "Culture Map - Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business" by Erin Meyer), but I don't think you should perceive this as an attack on you personally.
This is not just a US site, and even if it was, it's still useful to learn about how stuff works elsewhere in the world. Curious people want to learn and that's why many come here.
I do read too much Reddit, but I also live in Sweden lol
Also the misunderstandings of how things work here.
OP said "Layoffs in the WFH era are weird"
Yes they are, but people here don't suddenly go offline quite as weird is what I was trying to get at.
Meta comment: why are bunch of people from Europe repeatedly get triggered on US-based site by stories about US business practices that have nothing to do with them?