Toxic workplaces squeezing out staff identified as 'quiet firing' tactic
The new trend of reducing the workforce by getting employees to quit is hard to prove
10 April 2025 - 04:30
First there was quiet quitting, now there’s quiet firing — a stealth tactic employed by companies to reduce the size of the workforce without having to pay severance packages...
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