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Pilita Clark

The brutal truth about being fired these days

Sacking people is sometimes necessary. I have done it myself, though will hopefully never have to do it again. But dismissing people by email or phone is still distressingly common and needs to stop.

Imagine waking up one morning and lying in bed, checking your overnight emails before you have to make a work call to France, when you see a message from your company’s chief executive.

It says a lot of people are going to be laid off. The next email is worse: you are going to be one of them.

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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

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