Hard disagree. These are the people using their time wisely, and it's hilarious in some sense that the company shot itself in the foot by laying them off, ironically by using a tool to automate it. It's a bad thing to help increase productivity all of the sudden? It was a poor decision by management that reflects a culture of treating workers like arbitrary units that can be generated or destroyed with no consequence. Downside is that the rest of the team got some fallout, but it's not like they're not paid for the time anyway.