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In addition to what others said, there’s also a compliance aspect.

Even if 99% of laid off staff will react fairly and reasonably, it only takes a few to do serious damage, potentially to your customers.

Even on a small scale, those laid off can cause some harm: “losing” things, getting extremely enthusiastic with decommissioning equipment, or even filling the company cars with fuel right before giving them back to the hire company.




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