August 30, 2006 |
Posted By Diane Pfadenhauer |
HR 101 - How NOT to Fire Your Employees
Radio Shack recently announced that it would layoff about 400 employees. Now word is out that it decided to notify those affected via email. Yup, that's right. They sent emails to the affected employees telling them they were fired. According to an article in USA Today, the email contained the following language:
"The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress...unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."
So what happened to "we're sorry to see you go; this is a difficult decision; thanks for all of your hard work?" What about the telephone? This is actually a store that sells them, so I can't imagine they don't have them! Couldn't they spend a few minutes calling every employee? Seems to me that's the very least they could have done. So where is their HR leadership and how did this happen?
"The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress...unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."
So what happened to "we're sorry to see you go; this is a difficult decision; thanks for all of your hard work?" What about the telephone? This is actually a store that sells them, so I can't imagine they don't have them! Couldn't they spend a few minutes calling every employee? Seems to me that's the very least they could have done. So where is their HR leadership and how did this happen?
