‘ZOOM firings’ the future?

“With people working from all over, I don’t see how a meeting cannot be set up to follow an email about the termination and [give] people the opportunity to respond,” says Woodley. In other words, it’s crucial to follow a group announcement by senior management with individual conversations with affected employees to answer questions and talk about next steps.“Bringing groups of people onto a call to experience something that is so jarring is not good form,” says Taylor. While he believes it’s OK to bring an organisation together to announce redundancies or restructuring, it’s crucial to “then have individualised conversations, even remotely, with the impacted employees so that people can experience, respond to [and] digest a separation discussion one-on-one”.
These personalised conversations can be especially important in a depersonalised setting like hybrid or remote work, where workers may spend all day alone in their home office. And even …