[slantedview]

"owning" the decision doesn't mean anything. It's just words.

[jtokoph]

One day there will be a CEO who actually pays the severances out of their own compensation.

[t-writescode]

So, like Nintendo and other Japanese and Chinese companies where the CEO of a company treats the company like their child and takes the hit when they make errors?

Or maybe like the US employer that gave everyone at the company a flat wage?

[medi8r]

Even better they fire themself, the exec team can replace them with AI

[teyopi]

Agree materially no consequences but still better than many deflection strategies we have seen from others during layoffs.

[rustystump]

It is but those words could be long flowery corpo speak or short.

“Yall gonna get money and most yall fired. My bad woops”