[darkandbrooding]

I was curious and did some math. A five minute zoom call is not realistic; you probably need 15 minutes per person. If my math is correct, and if no one was even a minute late, it would take 225 hours to lay those people off sequentially, assuming 24/7 meetings. If you had 15 managers making those calls, it would still take 15 hours to complete all calls. Let's call that three business days, during which no other work gets done anywhere in the company.

I once worked at an employer who performed five rounds of layoffs in the space of a few months. I cannot recommend that method.

I agree with you, the 900-wide bandaid was the only practical option.

[contravariant]

Is it realistic to have just 15 managers for a 6000 employee company? That would mean 400 employees per manager.

[darkandbrooding]

I freely admit that I pulled numbers out of a hat, just to help me visualize the problem.