Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video
by brk on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:50PM
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At this point a firing or layoff might as well just be a text message: "You're fired. K, thx, bye". Any words beyond that are just fluff anyway. To the person getting let go, it really doesn't matter if the decision caused the CEO to get ulcers, or if it was the easiest decision ever. Executive teams only take responsibility in words.
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Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video
by Someone1234 on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:04PM
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I understand your point, but employees do need to know a lot of important information that cannot be communicated like that e.g. health/dental benefit lapse, severance, references, etc.
It is actually really important in mass layoffs to have this information immediately to hand.
Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video
by xienze on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:09PM
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They email you said documents or a link to an employee services website.
Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video
by paxys on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:29PM
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I’d much rather get a link to all this information than sit while an HR drone recites it to me for 10 minutes.
Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video
by drozycki on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:07PM
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Why bother with a text? Just lock them out of their accounts. They'll figure it out.
The termination ritual is for the people that stay and who the company may wish to hire in the future.
Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video
by abyssin on Saturday August 02, 2025 @06:23AM
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Is this sarcasm?
Re:Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video
by gosub100 on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:41PM
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according to this, a 2024 tesla layoff just locked people out the building:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-staff-locked-out-layoffs