Confessions of a Man Who Does the Layoffs

Over the last few months, there have been countless stories of cutbacks at companies large and small. Real people are losing jobs. For some, that means losing their homes or being forced to change careers. Lately, we’ve been hearing the stories of many of the people on the receiving end of the hits recently sustained by the tech industry. But there is another side to layoffs that doesn’t get told very often. That’s the story of the people who do the laying off, those who make the decisions about who stays and who goes. Do they deserve our sympathy or our derision?

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