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by rob74 197 days ago
Well yeah, and that's actually the point: if you don't like it, you're free to leave! Headcount reduction without severance payment and getting rid of an unmotivated employee, win-win! At least for federal employees they had the decency of spelling it out clearly: https://traumaawareamerica.org/2025/04/28/deliberate-strateg... - the rest of us have to keep listening to the "it's all for your best" BS...
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Sometimes the "quiet layoff" [1] aspect of RTO leaks publicly though.

[1] If they get to call shit on workers with "quiet quitting" etc. they get the same back