![]() ![]() “It's pretty unusual,” agreed Sarah Rodehorst, the CEO of Onwards HR, a “separations” platform that helps companies with the layoff process. Sandra Sucher, a Harvard Business School professor who studied layoffs, similarly said the companies were employing an entirely “new tactic” as far as she knew. ![]() Jenny Dearborn, a well-known HR expert and former chief talent officer at the enterprise software company SAP, told Motherboard she had never before heard of such an idea. HR experts with direct experience in and around layoffs said the development was a modern one. After Twitter came under Elon Musk’s ownership last year, the social media company similarly told workers to stay away from the office as he took an ax to the company. ![]() McDonald’s is the second brand name organization to close offices during staff reductions. Prior to the pandemic, it would have been unthinkable for an organization the size of McDonald’s to tell its entire corporate workforce to stay home with only a few days notice, absent a natural disaster.īut the pandemic has changed the nature of work, and now it appears that it’s changing the nature of layoffs, too. Such a decision was an unusual choice-and a uniquely modern one at that. But the temporary three-day work quarantine had not. The layoffs themselves had been expected, part of a larger corporate rejiggering long in the making.
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