[vmception]

If you're being fired

> The invite will be titled “Meeting regarding your role at Klarna”.

lol ouch! They should make it a gamble where everyone has a meeting and you don't know what the outcome will be! But since thats even more resource intensive I would much prefer a mass pre-recorded zoom call over that.

I can understand that the former thing has better PR than the latter thing. But I think employed Americans are more adept at the fickle nature of their employment, whereas when the news articles go out about a mass zoom meeting firing, it gets the attention and hot takes from a bunch of more disconnected unemployable Americans and out of the loop people from other developed nations chiming in.

[rmbyrro]

Lots of people also criticize mass calls.

There's no way to please everyone. Especially in a mass lay-off.

[phphphphp]

Right, a lay-off is a terrible experience for everyone and there’s no “right” way to do it… but there are less awful ways.

There’s 7,000 Klarna employees currently wondering if they’re losing their jobs! If they had simply informed everyone immediately, that would be just 10% of the people feeling those feelings.

Setting aside employees for a moment, from a company perspective, the harm you’re doing to your organisation by giving everyone a week to worry about being let go is ridiculous, it’s self immolation. Every single klarna employee is, in this moment, thinking about getting a new job.

Mass impersonal announcements are brutal, absolutely, but this is even worse.

[christkv]

Like a wheel of fortune with the possibility of winning 12x months of severance pay.

[ushakov]

why not get more creative?

make a fortune wheel with each employee’s name on it and fire anybody who’s got lucky