I used to work in HR at one of the largest employers in my country. Layoffs, work force adjustments, rescinding of telework, negative things in general are purposefully picked to be given on Fridays or before holidays.
The theory is that by doing so, you minimize risk to the company. If they commit suicide, they do so on the weekend or during the holidays, off of work time and not close enough that a judge would deem it on work time.
Secondly, weekends or just before the holidays supposedly allows employees to seek out support to potentially avoid a risk to the company (like I mentioned above).
Thirdly, weekends or just before the holidays allows a period of time for supposed emotional cooling, which lowers risks to the company of the employee sabotaging their work, undermining anything, or creating security incidents.
Labor is so devalued right now.
They’ll just get an AI to make their games
Yeah, I’ve seen headlines like this pop up for the past few years near Christmas. I think companies just want to cheat their devs out of Christmas bonuses.
The one time i used kotaku was when they accumulated the layoffs at the start if the year and updated it daily
Christmas isn’t even still a thing.
