How companies say 'layoffs' without saying 'layoffs'
Companies opt for euphemistic and vague synonyms, like “rightsizing” and “org changes”
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Companies opt for euphemistic and vague synonyms, like “rightsizing” and “org changes”
It sends a message to all the remaining employees: You could be next.
If 2023 is “the year of efficiency,” what were the CEOs of Meta, Amazon, and others doing in all those previous years?
“That’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel,” said Wayne Cascio, an industrial psychologist and economist at the University of Colorado Denver, who pioneered the test-scoring system used by the department today. “They’re barely qualified to be able to get approved…You’re really handcuffing the department in so many ways.”
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