I don't understand why a company would go through a layoff to let go 5% of it's workforce.  It hurts morale, costs significant severance and is a distraction to the workforce.  Wouldn't a hiring freeze have the same result?   Surely Microsoft has 5% turnover per year.  And it's not that hard to target the people that you'd like to leave... zero our their pay raises & bonuses and give them critical feedback.

I don't understand why a company would go through a layoff to let go 5% of it's workforce.  It hurts morale, costs significant severance and is a distraction to the workforce.  Wouldn't a hiring freeze have the same result?   Surely Microsoft has 5% turnover per year.  And it's not that hard to target the people that you'd like to leave... zero our their pay raises & bonuses and give them critical feedback.

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