It’s been a trying time for staff at firms with redundancies, affecting morale as layoffs mount amid an effort to silence dissent in the ranks for those departing.
Last month, the Financial Times reported that PwC had launched a round of “silent layoffs” in the U.K. Affected staff had to stick to a “suggested wording” if they wanted to send colleagues goodbye messages, while any mention of why they were actually leaving needed to be strictly omitted.
