I believe that the Slack API (if your company uses Slack) can be persuaded to give you the list of deactivated accounts. Then you just check this into git (on a daily basis), and you are done.
And, of course, in this AI Agentic world, you can probably ask your HR bot about the recent layoffs and get the information even more easily!
Separately, I thought the WARN act requirements included notifying who was being laid off ahead of time? Are they not subject to those for some reason or are they just taking advantage of the current government being anti regulation?
Regarding this story, this situation only exists because companies have gotten so secretive about layoffs. I have been through multiple rounds in the past few years and management loves to dance around the issue. No hard numbers on people cut, the teams, or even the dates when it will be effective. No surprise that those with the ability sought to get hard data on the scope of the action.
I also enjoy how the company framed this as practically hacking people’s PII, but I can believe it just took querying the internal company directory for some key metadata. Recently added to the “TO-BE-CUT” OU or something.
:-O
I don't know shit about Pinterest, but it looks insane.
My experience with how companies administer the layoffs has been the same as yours.