A Close Textual Analysis of Corporate Layoff Memos

Occasionally, all employers need to send bad news to their employees, but there are few bad news that can conflict with subtle work of declaring layoffs. In the electronic age, when lay-off notifications sent by e-mail leak to outsiders soon, the CEO will be not only aware of employees affected by layoffs, but also reporters, bloggers, and people who e-mail without doubt You should consider. Stock Analyst. In order to please these large numbers of audiences like the three Chief Executives who wrote this memo, the employer often diluted negative news or fixed it on a promising forecast about the future .

In 2001, the CEO of Patterson wrote and the note sent to about 400 administrators leaked online. This memo, written in tough memos, is that the manager raises employee productivity, promises dismissal, freezes recruitment, closes the "assistant center", changes if Patterson does not implement card punching system You will be motivated to confirm. Evidence Patterson's index is the integrity of the Kansas City office at 8 am and 5 pm. This memo is prone to inflammation and is widely seen as a mistake in management, Cerner's stock price fell by 22% in three days.

Inevitably, we all have to tell bad news in business documents. The CEO of a large global healthcare company sent a note announcing that layoffs are planned for US employees. But he did not tell the truth, but solved the problem by using at least 12 different euphemisms as the company recently planned layoffs and layoffs. He never actually used the word "work" or "reduction". CEO, I am sorry to reduce the labor force. I apologize for the good business decisions. But he properly buffers, fascinates the audience, not hiding full text content, but hiding the cliché of technical terms. He expressed the temporary dismissal as "opportunity."

Layoffs in some areas do not reflect the state-wide trends. According to the analysis of news coverage and educational committee materials, layoff does not seem to extend extensively or the whole state. Instead, they mainly reflect specific financial challenges in the six regions of Southern California. The main factor is declining enrollment rates in most areas such as Santa Ana, Santiago, Temecula, Montebello, Anaheim, Cupertino in the north. More than half of the unified data on all temporary dismissals of San Diego shows that the number of enrollment is decreasing steadily - from about 142,000 in 2000 - 01 to 129,000 in 2015 - 16. The less students, the less resources the community needs to pay for the increase in administrative expenses associated with healthcare and pension benefits. In particular, in the plan for recovery of the teacher retirement allowance system in 2014, it is necessary to steadily increase the contribution to the community within 7 years, which has led to regional tightening in many areas.