Was just reflecting on this earlier today. The last company I worked at was a growth stage startup with ~250 employees. They had pretty high standards and would let about 1-2 people go per month. Whenever this happened, the news would be announced to the entire company through a #team-updates slack channel. The same place where they’d announce new hires or promos. It was always the same template. “@here: Effective today, John Doe will no longer be working for Company. We appreciate all of his hard work over the last two years”. Is it fucked up to announce this to all 250 people rather than allow them a quiet exit? Seems like they’re rubbing salt into the wound. Their slack access would already be disabled at this point. FWIW, I left on good terms and doubled my salary. TC: $240k
That seems cruel, like turning the workplace into a corporate Battle Royale 😭
😂😂😂 “John Doe was knocked out by a fall.” Got an employee counter in the upper right 💀
Getting a notification on the top right corner of your screen "Your co-worker John was fired outside the playzone"
Name and shame
Joined a company recently and have seen that done twice. I think its more as a general alert to the company. It would be weird if you tried to message someone only to find their account deactivated. No good way to do it honestly
I had a company that announced departures, but it was everyone - voluntary and involuntary. If it was just firings that would be weird.
We announced voluntary departures too, but they were usually ~2 paragraphs highlighting the persons accomplishments, next steps, last day, etc so it was crystal clear which was which.
Sounds like Netflix
..a company with 250 employees?
I think he was just comparing them not actually saying it’s Netflix
Honestly think it'd make people feel really nervous, and you have so many people it's pretty overkill. But sounds like they just canned them without letting them tie up loose ends? Were these firings for behavioral problems or performance?
Yeah, immediate termination with access to all systems suspended during the meeting. I only know of two that were behavioral. Most were performance related and these people should have known for a while that they weren’t meeting the bar.
For performance that sounds like a bad call, but maybe they were paranoid about company secrets leaking? Were you working for Theranos? ;)
When you're small everyone knows everyone. So rather than letting the rumor mill run wild about what happened to so-and-so, they get ahead of it and announce it.
This is the best answer. Nothing wrong with what’s happening. Only a persons perception.
250 is an awkward company size where some functions remain like a 50 person company and some don't, and it's tough to know when to change. For a 50 person company it'd almost be weird to NOT do what you describe. For a 2500 person company it'd be wildly inappropriate.
Smartsheet did the same thing. But it was kind of like a table and gtk who left and where to re-direct emails
Imagine if they did this at Amazon 😂😂
You have 101 unread notifications.
😂😂
My company did that for directors and above.
Upper levels are a separate catrgory because they are drastic change in dire reporting.