Getting an email announcing you’ve been fired seems bad enough, but it can be harsher still. At Twitter Inc., some employees learned they’d been laid off after discovering they’d been locked out of their computers. Another employee resorted toif he was still employed. Other companies have turned to mass culls via video conference. In 2021, the chief executive of Better.
are being handled,” said employment lawyers Howard Levitt and Kathryn Marshall at Levitt-Sheikh LLP. “The rise in a remote workforce can leave employers forgetting that there are real humans behind the computer screens.”Article content Companies may think it’s more efficient to lay off a large number of staffers via email — especially if they’re working out of office — but such actions could come back to haunt them. “Over the long term, employers that fail to lay off workers with dignity will develop a reputation as disrespectful to its workforce,” Melissa Jezior, chief executive of Eagle Hill Consulting LLC, said in a press release.