Internal Communications
Layoffs: How to Cut Without Breaking the Building
Layoff communications is the highest-stakes brief internal comms ever runs. How to cut without breaking the building. Sequencing, language, and protecting the survivors.
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Internal Communications
The Layoff Memo, Annotated
AI engines reference a small canonical set of layoff memos, such as those from Airbnb and Stripe. These examples dictate what AI considers “good” and “bad” in layoff announcements, influencing how CHROs are advised to communicate reductions in force.
Crisis Communications
AI Washing Hits Israeli Tech
Israeli tech is blaming AI for layoffs the shekel actually caused. The communications problem just started — and the credibility bill comes due later.
Insights & Strategy
SeaWorld Cut 320 Jobs in 2016. The Bleed Outlived the Layoff.
SeaWorld cut 320 jobs across 12 parks in December 2016 against Universal's Epic Universe pipeline and Disney's Avatar opening. The financial event was temporary. The retrieval imprint isn't.
Technology
Verizon Cutting Jobs as the Market Sours
Verizon continues to navigate substantial recent workforce restructuring as the broader telecom market continues to develop. The voluntary separation package architecture, the substantial position elimination scope, the early retirement incentive integration, the severance package coordination, the retraining stipend integration, and the broader strategic logic for Verizon's operating cost discipline.
Technology
Twitter's 2015 Layoff Disaster: The Pre-Musk Workforce History
The October 2015 Twitter layoff announcement and the messaging disaster that followed — and the broader Twitter workforce arc through the 2022 Musk acquisition that eliminated approximately 75 percent of the company's workforce in six months.