While I agree with the use of positive phrasing having the ability to go over the top, I think that this goes too far the other way. “Firing” normally refers to a termination where the driving factor is that the individual employee was at fault. “Layoffs” normally refer to where that’s not the case, that the driving factor is a change in the business enviornment.
If someone always shows up for work an hour late, they might be fired for that. If a company shuts down a division that’s been losing money, that’s laying the employees off.
It’s unlikely that a thousand people all did something wrong simultaneously.
While I agree with the use of positive phrasing having the ability to go over the top, I think that this goes too far the other way. “Firing” normally refers to a termination where the driving factor is that the individual employee was at fault. “Layoffs” normally refer to where that’s not the case, that the driving factor is a change in the business enviornment.
If someone always shows up for work an hour late, they might be fired for that. If a company shuts down a division that’s been losing money, that’s laying the employees off.
It’s unlikely that a thousand people all did something wrong simultaneously.