Have you noticed that even 3 weeks later the company won’t own up to how many impacted employees were involved in the mass layoff? “Some members impacted.”’ Ok, technically true Ms. General Counsel and Ms. Spokesperson. Some is more than one. In a few months as this Wall Street nosedive continues unabated, it won’t be “all” employees impacted because a small handful will be left to help manage the liquidation of the company. But hey, that will be technically true, too. Last one out shut the lights because they won’t be paying the final bills…or vendors, or any severance to the next (hush hush) round of employees cut.
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Unless there’s a last minute miracle, this all ended up coming true.
It is bizarre that they claim to have an open door, but when someone asks a basic question like "how many of my colleagues were kicked to the curb last week," the acting interim co-CEO (say that 5x fast) informs us that we don't need to know that information since they haven't publicly announced it. Uh, isn't it weird that they announced the precise number of layoffs in 2015 when they were private but won't release even an approximate number in 2023 as a public company? They didn't even announce it at all. It was reported in the press, and then they confirmed it after the fact.
BTW, there are currently 615 employees at the SSC according to the HR site. I don't know what number the site had before the layoffs, but I'd always heard around 850.
180 people were let go at Joann in September 2023