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I'm assuming this was a call with all the remote staff that edit the individual sites and live in the communities that the sites cover.

I don't think they were going to fly them all into a central location to fire them.

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For a small company, I wonder how much that would add to the wind-down costs. Fly everyone to Las Vegas for a company offsite/conference, announce the firing at the 10am meeting, give everyone $X00 in extra termination pay up front and tell them to hit the slots.

If you're already planning to spend $5-20k per employee for X weeks severance, an extra $1-2k per employee for the offsite firing might only increase your wind-down costs by 10%.

Wow, good one, I've never seen as evil an idea as this.

I simply meant that if it were my company with remote staff - I would individually call them and not have an HR rep tell them on a conference call.

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