[nemo44x]

Is the word “impact” the latest way of saying “fired” without saying it? We are seeing that particular word in nearly every note regarding these types of action.

Why this word and why is everyone using it? It’s not only CEOs and HR but on LinkedIn I see many people referring to themselves as “impacted” and open to word, etc.

Is there a word for this type of memetic term suddenly being used everywhere as a substitute for previous words? Wasn’t “downsized” the word like 20 years ago?

[ljm]

Being fired means you were terminated but the position is still needed. It’ll be hired for again.

Being made redundant means the position itself is no longer required, so you’re let go because your job isn’t there any more. Depending on the law in your country or jurisdiction this will also mean you can’t hire for that position again for some time.

There are more legal protections for the latter and businesses can’t just fire hundreds or thousands of people at once and claim it’s not a redundancy process.

Beyond all that thought, ‘impacted’ is just a euphemism for ‘laid off’ or ‘made redundant’.

[nemo44x]

Right I get that. The question is why this particular word that everyone is suddenly using and no one did before?

[Terretta]

One of the most insidious of such words for mass firing is "efficiencies".

Enterprises adopted the euphemism then forgot there are any other cost or overhead reducing approaches to improve efficiency other than "efficiencies".

Managerialism is value-generation destroying.

[iLoveOncall]

Being laid off and being fired is not the same and this has legal consequences.

[nemo44x]

The question I asked is why is the word “impacted” suddenly being used everywhere when it never has been for these types events before. It’s so pervasive that you and another commentator just assumed it’s typically used (it never has been until recently) and you overlooked the actual question and decides to explain an obvious thing.

[iLoveOncall]

Re-read the post.

It clearly says "we are going to reduce the team size, which will impact 28% of the people".

It's not just saying "We are restructuring and 28% of people will be impacted", it clearly says that they will lose their job.

People answer you off the mark (according to you) because your question is nonsense to begin with.

[nemo44x]

It clearly says this:

> This decision will impact 28% of the Prisma team, and those affected have already been notified via personal and work email.

Do you see the English word “impact”? The word “impacted” comes from this. This has been used over and over in this context by many companies and people. So my question was why has this word suddenly come into vogue for this type of event? Why not layoff or w/e was always used?

Do you have an answer to that?