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> but they just asked a small fraction of the fired people to come back.

That we know of (meaning they posted publicly about it). The real number could be way higher.

> but asking some of them to come back isn't a negative sign at all.

It's a very negative sign, especially at the scale it happened (as I said, we know about the cases where the person accepted to go back or publicly stated they were offered to come back).