Everyone who wasn’t laid off is feeling mentally spent. Losing long-time colleagues is devastating and emotionally taxing, and we’re somehow supposed to continue on like nothing has happened. As a person, I just can’t.
Management is walking on thin ice, and morale just took an even worse turn. By all means, split the company in half—we’re already as divided as the country is with the upcoming elections. We’ve never politically meshed well, and these decisions only deepen that divide.