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I'm not sure I get this.

If it's in my team/department, I'll know about it one way or another. If not ... Why would I care? People come and go, and if we're friends outside of work, we'll have other channels.

Besides that, most companies I worked at don't even maintain the LDAP/whatever properly. I've seen contacts from people that left/were fired stay around for years.

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On an individual level: maybe you don't work closely but know the name, might be interested to know ahead of suddenly realising you haven't seen/heard from them for weeks/months; or maybe you used to but they moved to a different group, you're not in touch but vaguely interested if they've left.

On a more macro level: you might be interested in an apparent layoff/significant restructuring.

Someone used to (/maybe does) run this as an email service ('orgdiff') at Arm. I wouldn't have gone out of my way to do it myself, but it was something to skim with a Monday morning coffee.

> If not ... Why would I care?

What if they're someone you're working with on and off. Or if you're waiting on some tasks from them?

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