Layoffs Are Painful. But You Can Communicate Them Compassionately.
November 8, 2022
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Summary.
Large-scale layoffs, or reductions in force (RIFs), are, regrettably, a fact of life in business. More than 322,000 were announced by U.S.-based companies in 2021 and another 133,000 in the first half of 2022, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.