Employees waking up to find out they no longer have email access. Others showing up to the office only to be denied entry. Delayed severance paperwork. Some immigrants suddenly unsure if they will even be able to stay in the country as executives party at Davos.
As layoffs roil the tech industry—hitting big-name companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Lyft, Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, Salesforce, Spotify, Stripe, and others—those affected and bystanders alike have been left shocked at the seeming callousness with which many of the industry giants are opting to communicate job losses to their workforces.
