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.
Technology
Verizon's Workforce Reduction Arc: A Decade of Voluntary Separation Packages
The workforce reduction arc that has defined Verizon for ten consecutive years — 50,000 positions eliminated, the structural shift from voice to data to 5G, and the ongoing tension between capital investment and operating-cost pressure that has driven sustained labor restructuring.
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.