The food thing is a symptom of my dysfunction in the sense that like, when you over commit, you are often in a lot of meetings back to back. So eating kind of happens whenever you can squeeze it in and often the people I'm most comfortable with get the time to make food moment. The dogs must be moved from wherever they are to somewhere else. It's truly one of them is right now rattling the door of this closet in his frame. And then you're going to let them out or let them in or tell them no. All right. My addition to your bingo card for today is just one second. You're not mad, but you're not psyched
We won’t mince words: Layoffs suck. They heap very real stress and chaos onto very real people’s lives. And as we’ve seen reported lately, big waves of layoffs are hitting several companies—and thousands of people—hard right now. This pile of not-good news sparked some questions for us, like: Why are layoffs a go-to cost-cutting lever? What pre-layoff org design decisions put employers and employees in this gnarly position? And why does every CEO letter announcing mass layoffs sound like it was written by the same robot?
In today’s episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans, who’ve been on both sides of the layoff aisle, spend time with these queries and dig into:
- The all-around messiness of the traditional layoff process
- Why companies default to short-term thinking when the boom times boom
- Dehumanizing layoff practices we should shelve for good
- Creating clear containers and agreements for handling layoffs
- How we could design a layoff moment that’s truly people-positive
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