CONTAMINANTES
Layoffs deserve to be handled with decency - Some of the worst:
• A company where many heard about their layoffs from spouses who had received registered letters at home announcing the cuts.
• A company where all employees were told managers would be walking through the office. Any worker tapped on the shoulder by a strolling manager was gone.
• A company that issued a press release announcing the layoff and then started breaking the news to those actually laid off.
If I may summarize Gelatt's advice [Carol Gelatt has been around the Silicon Valley hiring and firing game for 20 years. She has advised laid-off workers and executives preparing to lay off workers.], doing it right is fairly simple: Exhibit some common (or maybe not-so-common) human decency.