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Zoom meeting I can understand, just an email? That's alittle too cold.
Practical and efficient. Id be pissed to spend gas getting dragged in to be told i have less fuel next month. >

Having someone tell me I'm laid off to my face would be so awkward. >

I work in HR and have delivered the layoff message many times. It’s awkward for everyone. The person being laid off has the added pain of losing their job. 
I didn’t make the decision and someone has to tell the person. Least I can do is treat them professionally and with dignity. 
Note - I’ve also been laid off as the HR person so I do have a modicum of experience on both sides. >

My sister worked tangentially to HR in one of her former jobs, had to sit in on a firing and be the person who escorted them to their desk/out the door. 
Honestly one of the reason she left the job. >

Yeah it’s a shitty part of the job. But then, some lawyers defend murderers, right? Someone has to do the shitty jobs and in HR my job is sometimes to lay people off by making sure their rights are protected and the person is treated like a person. But, I work for a much smaller company. I’m not doing ten thousand people. 
But I also do investigations and lemme tell you, when I get to recommend we fire someone for being the creepy guy creeping on the girls or someone that’s just ridiculously racist… yeah I enjoy getting those people out of my company. 
Or when we fuck up someone’s pay, I fix that shit in a hurry. Mistakes happen. And a couple times in fifteen years it was intentional and someone got fired for messing with pay. 
HR isn’t as evil as Reddit seems to think. Lots of shitty HR people make the whole profession look bad. >

HR doesn't have the best PR department. >

There's more nuance in the text than the title, and I think the title has people angry. I agree that a zoom call would suffice because that's how they typically "show up." No one would honestly say it makes sense to drag them in person to be fired >

If youre not in the office, I honestly dont even know how you could lay them off except email or a zoom like you said. Cause let me tell you, if you called all those people into the office to lay them off, they'd be bitching about that too! >

Plus they could throw a chair or something >

You have a valid point. I agree with you. >

Same. I was expecting to disagree. But this was well reasoned. >

Well what am I going to take my boundless rage out on now? >

downvotes post >

Maybe I'm just super shy but I would prefer it this way. Having someone tell me I'm laid off to my face would be so awkward. >

Honestly I've been laid off before, in person, and it was excruciating. I would prefer a mass email.