One user called the email an ‘all time classic bad layoff announcement’, while another referred to the announcement as ‘the most tone-deaf layoff email’. — Coffee work photo created by Racool_studio - www.freepik.com
A California technology company’s CEO apologised after including a quote from a Martin Luther King Jr sermon in an email to employees announcing layoffs, calling it “inappropriate and insensitive”.
Toward the end of her 1,700-word email to employees on Jan 24, which is posted on the company’s website, PagerDuty’s Jennifer Tejada quotes from Martin Luther King Jr’s “The Measure of a Man” shortly after announcing company promotions.
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