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> As a result, many of our Webflow teammates are leaving the company today

What a disgusting way to phrase that.

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Why? How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?

> How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?

Step 1, stop using AI as an excuse?

Step 2, don't use "leaving the company" as a euphemism for "getting laid off", as the former implies employee agency and choice they don't actually have.

The entire post is a green-beige sludge of corpspeak, euphemisms, and AI slop. Who fucking talks like this anyway?

Well, first of all, stop lying. These people aren't leaving the company. They were fired. They were removed. Leaving sounds voluntary.

Then, this might be a cultural thing, but I don't want niceties and flowery language. Give it to me straight. It's not "we're rebuilding". We're not rebuilding anything. We're broke. If you're broke just say that.

Alternatively, can you explain why you believe this statement reduces bad feelings? Put yourself in the shoes of those who have been laid off.

Defend your position, I’m tired of, and will not play defense.

Direct and to the point. This is the opposite of that.

That's on me; I set the bar too low. When I asked "How", I was hoping for someone to literally write up an alternative and better way of phrasing this, which would still work as part of a corporate press release.

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