A growing trend is reshaping the modern workplace: rolling or staggered layoffs over weeks or months, rather than one decisive restricting event. On paper, breaking layoffs into phases seems more manageable and less disruptive. However, in practice, multi-phase layoffs over time are proving far more damaging to morale, productivity and, ultimately, profitability.

Recent reporting, including Axios’ analysis of U.S. trends, mirrors what we are seeing across Canadian workplaces: employees are not just anxious about job loss, they’re exhausted by the uncertainty. When layoffs come in waves, the real impact is not the number of........

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