[topkai22]

There was a round of layoffs I went through at a consulting company where we are pretty sure some pure overhead MBAs pulled a report of who was missing "cloud" skills from an internal skills tool and had had anything less than a top box review laat year. Without consulting even the GM dozens of senior/principle people were let go.

This naturally ended up a disaster because A) those people weren't updating their skills in the tool because they were high demand rock stars and B) they had deep customer relationships, to the point where many customers threatened to (and I'm some cases did) cancel their contracts and stop doing business with us. My understanding is somewhere between 1\3 and 1\2 of everyone let go was hired back at higher pay after keeping all their secerence pay, and many of the rest just refused to do so.