SecDef confirms a "reevaluation of our probationary workforce"—and adds that a hiring freeze is coming, during which a more comprehensive search for "redundancies" and "underperformers" would be conducted.
They’re claiming that the people are being let go for poor performance in their termination letters, presumably for legal reasons, so I guess that they technically qualify as firings.
But, I mean, that’s not what’s actually driving this – they’re just getting rid of people who they can get rid of without regard for performance – so I’d use the term “layoffs” myself.
i hope they would call these “dismissals”. Because like that, it sounds like “firing squads”
They’re claiming that the people are being let go for poor performance in their termination letters, presumably for legal reasons, so I guess that they technically qualify as firings.
But, I mean, that’s not what’s actually driving this – they’re just getting rid of people who they can get rid of without regard for performance – so I’d use the term “layoffs” myself.
“layoffs”, yes, this is good terminology for me as well … in my view, it removes the dreadful impression given by the word “firing”.