Comment Re:Ask the employees (Score 1) 16
Of course they will. Sometimes the company might even lie to the benefit of the employee.
Back in 2016 the company I was with laid off 600 people. This wasn't driven by AI, but by two decades of excessive and unrestricted hiring that ran into reality pretty hard. Two names on the block in my area were folks with shitty attitudes, poor punctuality, and no desire to improve.
They got an unblemished, unremarkable "redundant" exit and a package. The company got a clean separation. Worked out well for both.
Companies will use this opportunity to cut ties under the guise of layoffs. Employees will always reach for the most nefarious of reasons, even when redundancy really is the cause.
But in the end, layoffs with reasonable exit packages aren't the end of the world. It's not disrespectful to lay people off. Respect is reflected in the process and the terms.