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Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package (www.cnbc.com)

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Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package::Roblox CEO David Baszucki told remote employees that they'll have to start coming to the office Tuesdays through Thursdays.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Could be. But it’s also a wise choice even if they have no layoffs planned.

Let’s say they don’t offer voluntary severance. It’s just RTO or quit. Lots of people will grudgingly RTO while they look for a new job. That makes their time of departure unpredictable and it means they’ll be disgruntled as long as they’re still around. Why not just rip off the band aid, invite these people to leave immediately, and help them do so? You can move on from that.

And maybe by shedding these people, they can actually avoid a layoff.

Paid severance is a tip-off that a layoff may come, but RTO is also a big fucking deal and I could see it possibly having a paid severance component even with no layoffs in sight. Possibly, mind you.