[999900000999]

Every single company is guaranteed to try and assure employees the company's doing okay.

Think about it for a second, regardless of if your employer intends to do layoffs or not, the moment people fear for their jobs, they'll spend more time looking for work.

I prefer the quick rip the Band-Aid off lay off, give me a bit of severance, let me shake the hands of upper management and we can all move on for our lives

[capableweb]

It's cool that you can just survive on getting fired, with zero repercussions in other parts of your life and all that. But that's not the situation for many others, who have to plan a good chunk of their (at least immediate) future based around other people in their life outside of work.

So if a company says "Just so everyone know, the entire market is experience a tough time, and so are we, so right now we're evaluating our options, don't do anything drastic", people can plan around that. But if the company says "Don't worry about what's happening around you, we're super fine and would never do layoffs", people start to plan around that.

It's a bit silly, and people probably shouldn't trust management/the company to have their best interest at heart, but as humans we do trust others (probably more than we should).

[dymk]

OP said he prefers the quick band aid method, not that he doesn’t care.

[999900000999]

You can't trust what the company says regardless.

A sudden layoff can happen to anyone.

[handsclean]

Yes, lying to people makes them believe things that benefit you more. It also nukes your relationship with them.

[cyanydeez]

Same with failing crypto coins. As soon as they tell you it'll be ok is the moment they're fire saleing

[bikingbismuth]

I was in the first wave of a multi-wave lay off recently and after seeing how awful it was for the "survivors" to get RIF'd a couple weeks later, I am glad I was out asap.