LinkedIn following the layoff of several employees.Braden Wallake, the chief executive officer of a marketing agency called HyperSocial, uploaded a post to LinkedIn on Wednesday, outlining his guilt about having to lay off some members of staff.
The post finished with a close-up photo of the CEO teary-eyed, covering his mouth with one finger. Bank of England makes biggest rate hike in 27 years, warns of recession until 2024 “This will be the most vulnerable thing I’ll ever share,” Wallake wrote in the post’s opening. “We just had to layoff a few of our employees.”Wallake called the layoffs “the toughest thing I’ve ever had to do.”The CEO wrote he’d seen many other companies also dismiss staff over the past few weeks.He claimed that while many other businesses laid off employees “due to the economy, or whatever other reason,” the layoffs at HyperSocial were his own fault.
Coca-Cola unveils offbeat new flavour that tastes like your ‘subconscious’ “I made a decision in February and stuck with that decision for far too long,” he wrote. “Now, I know my team will say that ‘we made that decision together,’ but I lead us into it.”It is unclear exactly what the regretful decision was.Wallake continued, writing that he wished he was a business owner “that was only money driven and didn’t care about who he hurt along the way.”“But I’m not,” he wrote. “I just want people to see, that not every CEO out there is cold-hearted and doesn’t care when he/she have to lay people off.”Wallake compared his employees to members of his family.“I can’t think of a lower moment than this,” he concluded.