How to Prevent Layoffs From Traumatizing Your Employees

Helping your remaining team heal is critical for your company’s future

Karen Wickre
Marker
Published in
5 min readApr 21, 2020

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A woman working at home participating in a team video conference call.
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More than 22 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past month. In recent days, we’ve seen poor decisions made by executives who have laid people off via text message, conference call, (or, even worse, if that’s possible, via a two-minute Zoom

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Karen Wickre
Marker

Connector, word wrangler, reality checker; communications advisor, author (“Taking the Work Out of Networking”), Marker columnist (https://marker.medium.com)/.