I worked at a place where the executives constantly sent out company wide congratulations emails, to each other.
The HR director wrote “why it is a great time to work at X part 1” and then we did some layoffs… and part 2 was sent out the next day without missing a beat.
That company eventually stumbled and failed largely because they wouldn’t cancel a product that was clearly deficient (a far superior product was available but wasn’t invented by the established engineering manager, so they killed that product instead ).
The HR director wrote “why it is a great time to work at X part 1” and then we did some layoffs… and part 2 was sent out the next day without missing a beat.
That company eventually stumbled and failed largely because they wouldn’t cancel a product that was clearly deficient (a far superior product was available but wasn’t invented by the established engineering manager, so they killed that product instead ).