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by vrkr 5056 days ago
I work in a digital marketing company and there is a lot of people that gets fired and I'm just trying to know if theres a better way they should do it. They usually send a generic email to everyone (we're around 120 people and I think it affect the morale of a lot of people
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You have a 'lot' of people getting fired?

It's good that you're thinking about how announcing team departures might affect morale, but I'd say it's a bit more important to get to the root of the issue - why are so many people getting fired?

Either you're hiring the wrong people and/or treating your staff so poorly that they simply don't care about getting fired (usually people will quit before they get fired so they don't have to explain it to future employers). Or perhaps this is some dodgy sales business where you hire a ton of people and then fire most of them that don't make impossible sales targets. I hope to god it's not the latter!

I think one of the issue is they don't hire good people and just want to get shits done quickly. Eventually it fires back and they fires them. The amount of work is also crazy.

There is no perfect company (and this one is not even close) but I am thinking that there is a better way to manage all that.

You know the difference just by the way they handle it that the person left in good terms. When someone is quitting and they announce it, the morale doesn't seem to be affected.

"usually people will quit before they get fired so they don't have to explain it to future employers"

Sometimes people won't ever quit, no matter how bad it gets. This is usually because they need the job and have no confidence in being able to obtain another job - understandable in the job market in most places today.