The chief executive who quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in her layoff email apologized to her staff. “There are a number of things I would do differently if I could,” she said, adding her email was 'inappropriate and insensitive.”
As interest rates rise and companies tighten their belts, white-collar workers have taken the brunt of layoffs and job cuts, breaking with the usual pattern leading into a downturn. WSJ explains why many professionals are getting the pink slip first. Illustration: Adele MorganThe chief executive of a San Francisco startup apologized for quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a layoff announcement, saying her email to employees was “inappropriate and insensitive.
Jennifer Tejada, chief executive at PagerDuty Inc., a cloud computing company, told staff last week she was cutting 7% of employees. PagerDuty is one of a number of companies that have recently
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