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  Quite incredible they had one really, they must have been bleeding money with all these little benefits. It’s one of the first things it would make sense to outsource.
context: "his call was disconnected while he was on a call with a potential candidate...he tried to log in to an internal company website...but failed to do so. Other members of his team also complained about getting logged out of their systems. Their manager dismissed the concern as a technical issue until they were informed about the layoff via an email. " >
  
  Technical concern...technically you don't work here >
  
  We corrected the issue with payroll.
  Did you tell him?
  Uh, we just said we corrected the issue with payroll. We find these things sort themselves out. >
  
  I work in the oil and gas industry, they’re basically massive layoff pros. You never give a heads up. Usually, by the time layoffs are announced to shareholders, they’re already done.
  That said, I’ve never heard of laying folks off via email. That’s pretty lame and disrespectful.  I suppose if folks are working 100% remotely it’s hard to find a different option, though. >
  
  I had a remote job and the day before it they sent an email to a specific group of like 50 of us, telling us to be in the office and be sure to bring our laptops.
  We 100% knew it was a layoff. We made plans the night before to have drinks at a bar that opened at 11am.
  Layoffs started at noon. I was like the 3rd person timing wise, when I walked into the bar there was a shot waiting for me.
  We did the same for everyone who walked in, just had a shot waiting.
  It worked out pretty well, it gave us time to exchange info, commiserate etc >
  
  Yeah, often word gets around. Maybe they had cuts in operations the week before so we’re all expecting R&E next etc.   In 2015 my HR department had a huge delivery of cardboard boxes show up at the lobby a couple days before.
  In the EU I think there are some rules that employees have to be given sufficient notice that they could potentially be cut.  Often the EU centers would skip some layoff cycles because it was a hassle, but when they did have layoffs there it was always really big cuts because they didn’t want to do it twice. >
  
  A colleague at Google during the lay offs found out their mental health coach was laid off too when they didn’t show up to a meeting. 
  They straight dissolved the mental health team during these times.