I saw this article and I couldn't believe that there are places that treat employees worse than Citrix. I didn't think it possible...
Hundreds join company’s pre-holiday Zoom call — to be told they’ve lost their jobs
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article256354787.html
I think I would’ve preferred that to meeting with HR and my director in a past layoff phase. Straight to the point and no unnecessary, and obviously fake, words of condolence. That said, the end result was the same and it all worked out for the best.
It’s the way of the future. Why bother with all the false pretenses and emotional drama when firing or laying off people. The company and employees can move on as quickly as possible.
It is about as truthful as one can get in corporate America .
This is exactly what Citrix did! Only difference was the layoff occurred over Microsoft teams vs Zoom.
Booking.com CEO laid off 500 employees in Toronto (entire office) during pandemic in one call. They did the same thing in some other office locations in US
Even thought the CEO was very robotic and I don’t agree with his tone and what he said, at least he had the ba--s to show up and speak to his employees unlike B.C. who just sat back- shot out an email likely written by his assistant then made HR do the dirty work.
Never compare what you are going through to someone else's to justify your unhappiness. Life is too short fu-k that.
Won't be cost effective when their public image goes with it.
This is the most cost-effective method for laying people off. Say what you want, but this man just saved the company hundreds of man-hours worth of meetings> AND, he spared all his managers having to carry the guilt and weight of this decision.
Good job.