Harvard expert 'takes issue' with Mark Zuckerberg's Meta layoffs: Cutting jobs over email is 'absolutely horrific' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about the Facebook News feature at the Paley Center For Media in New York on Oct. 25, 2019.10,000 more workers
in his company's latest round of layoffs, a Harvard University expert says she "takes issue" with the way some of them are being conducted — namely, over email. Finding out you've lost your job this way is "absolutely horrific," Heidi K. Gardner, a professional leadership advisor and distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School, tells CNBC Make It. The method could also be a reflection of poor leadership, she adds.
"Every leader who calls himself a leader, who gets paid like a leader, who's accepted that title of leader has the responsibility to exhibit ethical leadership" Gardner says. "And failing to communicate with somebody honestly and transparently and humanely before these events have taken effect is shameful."or posted on social media about getting laid off via email in recent weeks.
Jennifer Haynes, a former Meta technical recruiter, filmed herself checking her email and learning that she'd been laid off in real time. "Your administrator has suspended your Meta Dropbox account. You no longer have access to the account [or] files," she read from her laptop, in a TikTok video posted on March 15.to employees about the layoffs the day before, laying out a timeline for when job cuts would hit the company's recruiting, tech and business departments.
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