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Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs | WIRED (www.wired.com)
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[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't mention it initially but I also heard was that by doing it on Wednesday, they may be avoiding letting a significant proportion of the employees get their stock vests.

But yeah, it's not smart, and I assume they just don't care about productivity hits and hidden costs, if the superficial cost metrics are better.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, there are a lot of potential business purposes for it falling on a Wednesday, it’s really just that I can’t imagine 4 am working as well or better than basically any other time of day for this.

Although laying a tenth of your staff off immediately before some of their benefits vest is also bound to disgruntle employees, so maybe it’s just hubris.