Glenn Shapiro was dead set against paying out severance for the 2020 lay offs. Tom Wilson insisted severance be paid because he was worried of how lay offs without severance during a national state of emergency for the COVID19 pandemic would look when severance was often paid out for lay offs in the past. Now this was not Wilson being a humanitarian or feeling for those laid off, it was his own selfishness of how he and the company would look in the public eye. Wilson had to fight pretty hard to get Shapiro and others on board with the severance being paid out.
Source: home office contact who is in with top level administrative staff.