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It's not a publicly announced layoff. These people will be "managed out" - they'll be put on PIPs, given shitty work to do, have constant reviews, never given any chance for a promotion or a raise, until eventually they choose to quit.

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> until eventually they choose to quit

This is the part I don’t understand. What’s to stop people from not working and getting fired/packaged out instead?

I was being nice. Building up enough evidence to legitimately fire them is also a part of the "managing out" process.

Got it. Feels like this will be a lengthy process and require a lot of work, i.e. collecting evidence and documenting over multiple quarters, having people manage the process, all for 12k people. And my understanding is when you get PIP’d, you get offered a package of some kind to leave. I would be surprised if this approach is cheaper than just laying people off.

It will be pushed to line level managers, who will be overworked and stressed about it. But if you just make your managers do more, it doesn't cost the company anything.

It's embarrassing and awkward, and you can just go get another job instead of going through all that

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