WGU Layoffs

[dfrecore]

WGU didn't send out anything notifying students until the end of the business day. Student Services was unaware of the layoffs and had tons of people calling wanting to know what was going on and have classes opened up. It's been a disaster there today. Students are really unhappy based on social media. I've seen over a thousand comments on various threads. There's only a few people ok with what happened today.

There are HR laws about layoffs that have to be followed; I worked in HR for years, you can't just go announcing it to the world and letting employees find out via social media and whatnot.  Not saying that they handled it well (I'm sure they didn't), but companies rarely do this well.

Like I said, their best bet is to give people a term extension.