Layoffs in the WFH era are weird. Back in the day you had a pretty good idea of who got laid off because you saw them walking out the door with a box of their stuff. You could go up to them and say, "hey let's meet at $local_watering_hole and hang out". You could swap contact info if you didn't already have it.
You could get closure.
Now, one day a bunch of people just stop replying to email. You have a to wait a while to figure out if they are actually gone or just busy. And if you're waiting on them for some output to work on your project, they may just never deliver and you won't know why for a while.
The company directory, if there is one, often still shows them for 60+ days because of the WARN act. And it seems most companies won't make a "layoff list".
It's really hard to get closure if they won't even tell you who got let go, and if they don't give the people a chance to say goodbye by cutting off their access before telling them they are laid off.
You could get closure.
Now, one day a bunch of people just stop replying to email. You have a to wait a while to figure out if they are actually gone or just busy. And if you're waiting on them for some output to work on your project, they may just never deliver and you won't know why for a while.
The company directory, if there is one, often still shows them for 60+ days because of the WARN act. And it seems most companies won't make a "layoff list".
It's really hard to get closure if they won't even tell you who got let go, and if they don't give the people a chance to say goodbye by cutting off their access before telling them they are laid off.