{"id":2004,"date":"2009-04-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/04\/electronic-layoff\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T10:57:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:57:51","slug":"electronic-layoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/04\/electronic-layoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Layoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news stories are flowing about layoffs, downsizing and closing in this brutal economy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/Economy\/Story?id=7364921&amp;page=2\" target=\"_blank\">One such story from abcnews.com<\/a> shares stories from readers regarding extreme situations for being let go.\u00a0 This one was amusing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a traditional face to face layoff session, my company tried a new kinder gentler approach. They called a big meeting and announced that every employee had e-mail back on their computer that would tell them if they still had a job. I didn&#8217;t!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve been let go during layoffs before and there isn\u2019t any easy way to do it.\u00a0 However, it seems to me that if your communication strategy is to use some form of electronic notification (<a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/radio-shacks-junk-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\">like Radio Shack from a few years ago<\/a>), you are probably taking a bad approach to it.\u00a0 Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news stories are flowing about layoffs, downsizing and closing in this brutal economy.\u00a0 One such story from abcnews.com shares stories from readers regarding extreme situations for being let go.\u00a0 This one was amusing: After a traditional face to face layoff session, my company tried a new kinder gentler approach. They called a big meeting and announced that every employee had e-mail back on their computer that would tell them if they still had a job. I didn&#8217;t! I\u2019ve been let go during layoffs before and there isn\u2019t any easy way to do it.\u00a0 However, it seems to me that if your communication strategy is to use some form of&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/04\/electronic-layoff\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,11,22],"tags":[1311,1310,1282,138,1312],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-wk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->