1. We are laying off underperformers to strengthen the company (Has happened)
2. We are laying off poorly performing divisions (again, indirectly foisting the responsibility on the employees, because their division is underperforming)
3. We are laying off to cut costs and keep the company profitable (This may be the truth, but it treats employees like they are replaceable cogs in the machine they can throw out and bring back in any time).
4. Making the employees quit by themselves by creating toxic work environments (recently, forcibly enforcing back to office rules to shed all employees who cannot make it back or prefer remote).
5. Just layoff without any reason, not worrying about the mental health of the leaving employees or the ones who remain.
Just owning up his responsibilities means, the relieved employee atleast does not have to add the stress of "did-I-do-something-wrong" to his/her list of woes. This can sometimes be debilitating.
It also adds to the confidence of the existing employees that the company will do right by them, if it comes to letting them go in the future.
Ideally, no one should get laid off. But companies cannot be forever profitable and the government or no other body is going to bail them out. Considering that, this seems to be a more mature way of handling a terribly difficult situation.
Trust me, as someone who got laid off at 1.5 months into the first job, the way that was handled was a jarring experience. I would vastly prefer the above response.
As you spend more time in the industry, you see lots of badly handled layoffs and some better managed ones. You hear the stories of other veterans and learn a little more.
At some point you realize it is something everyone inevitably goes through and just a part and parcel of working in the private sector. You learn to plan ahead financially and mentally to handle such surprises.
Nowhere here do I talk about quitting (other than in the context of the forced one),
So employees will know in the future that the CEO will say it was their fault, but that they are the one that has to deal with the consequences of poor management. Got it. I hope everyone there "quiet quits" after this. Patreon is a cesspool of far-right grifters.
1. We are laying off underperformers to strengthen the company (Has happened)
2. We are laying off poorly performing divisions (again, indirectly foisting the responsibility on the employees, because their division is underperforming)
3. We are laying off to cut costs and keep the company profitable (This may be the truth, but it treats employees like they are replaceable cogs in the machine they can throw out and bring back in any time).
4. Making the employees quit by themselves by creating toxic work environments (recently, forcibly enforcing back to office rules to shed all employees who cannot make it back or prefer remote).
5. Just layoff without any reason, not worrying about the mental health of the leaving employees or the ones who remain.
Just owning up his responsibilities means, the relieved employee atleast does not have to add the stress of "did-I-do-something-wrong" to his/her list of woes. This can sometimes be debilitating.
It also adds to the confidence of the existing employees that the company will do right by them, if it comes to letting them go in the future.
Ideally, no one should get laid off. But companies cannot be forever profitable and the government or no other body is going to bail them out. Considering that, this seems to be a more mature way of handling a terribly difficult situation.