If it makes anyone who got laid off feel better, the plan and conversations to shift workload around to cover gaps has been haphazard at best and completely absent at worse.
Maybe if you didn’t have a plan on how you were going to reassign workload to tell people day 1 or 10 or 30 you shouldn’t have laid the people off doing the work…or at least waited a month or two to get a concrete plan and transition plan in place versus looking like amateurs, both inside and outside of the company…