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Week 3 Discussion post 1

Week 3 Discussion post 1

Q You are an executive at a company that suddenly has to lay off 400 employees within three days or risk financial disaster. You have to make the cuts quickly, but you don’t want to be impersonal by announcing the cuts by e-mail. How would you announce the bad news?

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I would announce the bad news by organizing a formal meeting with all the employees. I would inform all the employees that there would have to be 400 employees laid off within three days because of trying to save the company to come out of a situation of financial crisis. If these employees would not be laid off, it would be a burden for the company. The company would fall into heavy debt and would not be able to realize profits as it had been doing in the past years of operations.