The practice of firing people via Zoom or email is picking up steam alongside an uptick in layoffs.
or email is picking up steam alongside an uptick in layoffs — particularly among the professional classes where many folks are still working either fully or partly remotely.
"Asking somebody to commute into an office they rarely go to anyway, just to let them know they lost their job in a public setting feels cruel in a way that it never did before," says Andy Challenger, senior vice president at outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.During the COVID era, employers had no choice but to deliver layoff news virtually because offices were closed.
Inside the HR community there's debate over whether layoffs should be done in-person or remotely, Challenger says.let somebody go without doing it face-to-face."or a mass webinar. Challenger says the ideal move is to handle the messaging through one-on-one Zoom meetings. Big employers argue that's not always possible and that it would take too long to deliver personalized notifications."If people aren't all on-site there's not the same concern in terms of people potentially stealing company information right from the company servers," said Rina Bersohn assistant general counsel at Engage, an HR company.But workers lose out on something special — each other. "At home, employees are separate from one another.
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