Anne Morris

And then repeat it over and over and over again.

I mean, one of the things I'm struck by is, you know, there's a lot of behind the scenes energy that goes into preparing for a layoff.

You know, companies think about it for a long time.

They think about how to do it.

They think about, okay, how are we going to compensate?

Very deeply well-intentioned.

They send the email, right?

Like the grim layoff email.

And they dispatch people to go and execute this.

And then they breathe a sigh of relief thinking that their work is done.

No, they've just begun.

That their communications work is done.

And they've only done the first step.

There's this huge communication need now to tell us the plan, right, and tell us what's going to happen when we get there.

Because you have the whole rest of the workforce that you now have to bring along and get buy-in from.

And I feel like the investment in that part of the challenge is just painfully necessary.

You're done thinking about it.

Yeah.

You've metabolized it.

You've absorbed the shock of this.