'We don't matter' | Staff sent severance payslips BEFORE firm tells them they've been sacked

A firmed marred in controversy has hit headlines once again after sending staff severance cheques before officially telling them that they’d lost their jobs.

As first reported by Tech Crunch, US-based online mortgage lender Better.com took a huge misstep during its most recent round of mass redundancies. Reportedly, the company had intended to tell affected staff that they would be laid off on March 8th, before deciding to delay the decision by one day, to March 9th.

However, severance pay was still sent out on the original date, leaving many employees to discover via their payroll app that they were soon to be unemployed, before any official communication for their bosses.

According to Tech Crunch, an estimated 3,000 of Better.com’s 8,000-strong workforce, across the USA and India, are being culled. The publication spoke to an anonymous employee who said: “Better Layoffs have started. Severance showing in our Workday app (which is payroll) as of 12 AM respective time zones. No email, no call, nothing. This was handled disgustingly."