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Doesn't have to inevitable, though. They literally have all the data.


That's the problem with just reading data reports at scale.

Hiring 30k people so recently then firing almost half of them the next year, even filtering a tiny quarter of a percent is going to create outliers who get affected with serious life changing events.


It's really more about whether the decision makers at that level care about this kind of stuff or not.


> Doesn't have to inevitable, though. They literally have all the data.

Even if you have all the data, lets say there is a 4 person team being reduced to 3 during this redundancy - What do you do? Fire Anne instead of Peter purely because Peter joined the team more recently? Sure that sounds more fair for Peter, but it's less fair for Anne.


Someone else suggested putting Peter at risk - inform him that in 3 months he will be part of a layoff, so that he has those 3 months to find a new job.


Sort of? Dealing and living with that dilemma is part of the job though.


Literally, if we lived in a literally perfect world none would have to be literally fired either. Yet, here we literally are.




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