LEADING-LAYOFFS5 MIN READ
The Manager Who Wants to Cushion
Remove euphemisms that make a layoff harder to understand.
Omar has twelve minutes before the 9:00 a.m. notification block. Omar has written "your journey with us is changing" three times in one script. His HR partner asks whether he can say the actual decision out loud. The words used now will be repeated in Slack, in alumni texts, and in the next all-hands by people deciding whether leadership can still be trusted.
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