How to come back stronger from organizational trauma

It looks like there isn't any paywall workaround that would readers read this piece. That unfortunately means it's off topic on HN. Not that the topic is off-topic, but there may as well not be any topic at all if people can't read it.

If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989.

I thought this was going to be about layoffs (which are also traumatising), but it's about far worse events. Unfortunately you have to create an account to read the full article, so I'll just hope I won't be confronted with something like that (in the company or anywhere else).

Thought this would be the sort of trauma that comes from shitty organization management, not trauma from events reverberating through a community.

This is so ever rarely the case, and the kind of hopeful bollocks that executives tell themselves but no one believes.

I watched Google go through covid, then the random and ridiculously poorly executed layoffs. All people came away with was... wow our C-suite has no clue what it's doing at all.

Well then you say well thats Google, at MY company it's totally different. Its not. People feel the same way.

C-suite: if you dont start showing some degree of sacrificial leadership your companies are going to crumble as labor increasingly believe everything you say is BS and everything you do is meaningless.

Signed, A director of a former fortune 1 company.