One of the worst examples of how not to layoff employees was at a company I once worked for. One morning when everyone came in, no one was able to login to their email. No one knew what was going on. Everyone just clustered around gossiping and trying to figure out what was happening. Then we'd see people making the sad walk out to their cars with boxes. Every time the phone rang, we were scared to death it was HR calling us to tell us to go to the "big room" to be told we're being laid off. It was horrific.

Then there was Radio Shack that decided to just send emails to people saying "You're being laid off. Ha-ha!" Well...maybe they didn't say the Ha-Ha part, but many people felt that way.

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