[mikrl]

>they should do it all at once

When I was last laid off, the meeting was concurrent with my friend on another team.

I was not laid off by my manager but my 2x skip; other members of my team were laid off, presumably at the same time, by someone else in our CoC.

So based on these observations, I think for security etc reasons you need to lay people off all at once in batches. Too easy for lag to create ‘insider/outsider threat’ situations.

Obviously my points are redundant if you just do it over email.

[dx034]

While you cannot fire everyone in the same second, you can have batches over a few days. There's no need for waves that span over months. If anything, the risk of IP theft is much bigger if people have weeks of uncertainty if they'll be affected by the next layoff.