> I figured out that the plan was to let natural attrition take over and for every person who quits from here, hire their replacement there.
Honestly, if the company has decided to move, that seems like a good way to do it, no? Nobody gets laid off, they avoid the bad will of axing a team outright or asking you to train your replacements; it becomes a simple gradual turn-over.
Yeah, so in hindsight I feel that there's a better way to resolve this than the two options of "don't tell anyone" or "tell everyone."
The way I would do it, is tell people that we need to move their team to {{other country}} and therefore we would like to offer them either a severance package to find a new job _or_ work out a plan for them to transition to some other team that is in their location.
Honestly, if the company has decided to move, that seems like a good way to do it, no? Nobody gets laid off, they avoid the bad will of axing a team outright or asking you to train your replacements; it becomes a simple gradual turn-over.