Why Firing Someone Needs to Hurt

And how you can avoid layoffs as an emergency maneuver

Andy Chan
Marker
Published in
3 min readFeb 6, 2020

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MMany big companies rang in the new year with layoffs — including Intel, Ancestry, Lyft, Quora, and Mozilla. Of course, no one enjoys laying people off — reducing headcount simply remains a classic business move when it comes to reducing losses. One fewer employee means one fewer salary and benefits package.

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Andy Chan
Marker
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Product design @ Delivery Hero. I write about pretty much anything I want to write. Posting every Friday.