[sdfghderwg]

Lets think it through.

Even if each person is given 5 minutes of personal time with the person doing the firing, at 8 hours per day assuming no breaks, that's 5 * 900 / 60 / 8 = 9 days. Almost two business weeks. That means that 900 people will have a zoom meeting scheduled two weeks ahead of time, and while they wait they see that everyone who goes into that meeting is fired.

Does this sounds like a better way of doing it, to you?

[PLenz]

Your algo can easily be parallelized by increasing the number of people firing.

[chucksta]

If they have to fire 900 people, you think they only have the bandwidth for 1 person to fire them? 10 People its down to a work day, 20 is half that again..

[sweezyjeezy]

This was horrendous optics, basically asking to get shared virally and draw more attention to the bad situation the company is in. The CEO made it about himself / the company, that's all people are going to get from Google searches for a time to come. Managers could give them the news en masse as efficiently and infinitely more humanely.

[treeman79]

Heard many stories of it being done this way. Extreme anxiety for everyone as people wait to see if they get called in.

[sdfghderwg]

My point exactly.

[whimsicalism]

No, that doesn't sound like a better way, but it does sound like you aren't particularly grasping what they are proposing.

[danaris]

Taking the time to do it with respect for the individuals, rather than treating them all like interchangeable fodder?

Yeah, that seems better to me.