January 14, 2005

Is there a worse way to do layoffs?

Oracle is laying off 5000 jobs following their merger with PeopleSoft.

In what has to be one of the more appalling ways of handling layoffs I’ve ever heard of, Oracle intends to inform affected employees by mail, rather than telling them face to face. I guess this way Oracle managers can completely avoid having to think about the impact of the layoffs on people at all.

Shameful.

Posted by Mike at January 14, 2005 05:12 PM