I worked at Lattice a few years ago, back when it was under 100 people (probably doxxing myself, but whatever). They did a similar layoff right when covid hit. This definitely seems to be Jack's style, owning his decisions and not doing an HR hit-job. This post will work in his favor, no doubt. Glad to see Lattice prioritizing employees -- big fan of the 100k investment idea.

Seeing a lot of people shitting on the product in this comment forum. Plenty of their products are gimmicks, sure, but their real product is that they have a cult-following from the HR community, and they are better positioned to iterate and compete with more mainstream HR tools if they play their cards right. Lord knows they have way too many sales people (AKA "surplus elites"), and need to focus more on their product if they want to have something HR teams don't just want, but need, especially in this new macroeconomic condition. Hopefully the company can move on from this quickly. I don't think Jack is the kind of person who will fuck this opportunity up.