News leaked out of Atlassian on Wednesday about a new round of layoffs. The thing most surprising, as The Australian revealed, was Mike Cannon-Brookes did it over a video message.

Pre-recorded, too! The progressive billionaire couldn’t even set aside some time for a Zoom, or organise a town hall. He delivered the bad news dead-eyed, then screen-to-black, followed by employees locked-out of their laptops. HR isn’t getting better at this. It is getting more efficient.

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