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> Rather, the ones who have the easiest time finding a new job will often be the first ones to quit.

Doesn't that mean the layoff is as humane as possible? It means you inflict the least amount of suffering you could.

It definitely leaves the people who are competent in the org in a lurch.

Indeed: it leaves those people who are competent, but not good self-promoters in the lurch.