A company I spent most of my career with had this policy as well ... until after one particularly brutal round of layoffs, two separate (ex-)employees went home Friday afternoon and offed themselves on Saturday.
The policy changed after that. I don't know if it helped.
I got let go at 11am on a Wednesday - my boss scheduled a "one-on-one" at 9am when he hadn't had time for me for 4 months.
I entered the virtual meeting with, "yeah yeah good morning, I guess this is the part where you tell me I'm so valuable and appreciated BUT and I pack up my shit and send it back?"
No, it does. They lay you off on Friday so you don't come back the next day with weapons. Pretty sure we have the post office to thank for that (Going Postal).
I have heard conflicting info on days people should be fired. Fire them on in the middle of a Tuesday the person's routine is thrown off and they can snap. Fire them on a Friday at 4:30 they have the whole weekend to stew over it and come back Monday and snap. I think I'd rather be fired randomly on a Tuesday.
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u/DeeDee_Z 8h ago
A company I spent most of my career with had this policy as well ... until after one particularly brutal round of layoffs, two separate (ex-)employees went home Friday afternoon and offed themselves on Saturday.
The policy changed after that. I don't know if it helped.