Tech company CEO apologises for ‘insensitive’ use of Martin Luther King Jr quote in layoffs email

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.