Anne Morris

Welcome to Fixable from the TED Audio Collective.

I'm your host, Anne Morris.

And I'm your co-host, Frances Fry.

This week, we're bringing you another edition of Unsolicited Advice, where we give advice to people who didn't ask us for it.

Well, who's our lucky recipient today?

Well, Frances, today's unsolicited advice isn't totally unsolicited.

We want to address a question we see so often in our show inbox, which is what to do after your company experiences a layoff.

Today, we want to talk to the people who have to pick up the pieces the next day.

Senior leaders, managers, HR teams.

Oh, we get this question all the time.

All the time.

Yeah, we've coached a lot of leaders and organizations through this one.

I also want to acknowledge that as we record this, there are whole public sector organizations and organizations that rely on government funding that are confronting large-scale layoffs and disruption right now as the Trump administration works to reshape government.

For those of you listening out there who are impacted and looking for work, we're thinking about you and the people who depend on you.

We hope you'll listen to our episode from last season on job seekers and find something there that is helpful to you.

The headline on our advice is to not do this alone.

Your real enemy right now is isolation.

So build a community to help you get through this difficult time.

You're going to get to the other side, we promise.

And Frances, in a future episode, we hope to give unsolicited advice to the architects of these decisions.