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Internal Comms with Amanda Atkins (Slack) and Shannon Schiltz (a16z) on 4B with Margit #3

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How to Deal With a Lay Off?

Gill: There's so much planning that goes into doing a reduction the right way, that literally weeks can actually lead up to the day in which you're doing the communication. Gill: You have time to digest and process and talk to people like your jarleader, the legal person, what not? And then the employees hear like a bomb and a thud. But i think this is probably the hardest thing to navigate. I point em to stewart oster batterfield as the sof slack on how to shut down or do lay off gracefully.

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