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I've been at employers where they let it be known that if anyone wanted to discuss a package it would be available. That gives some employees control over the situation.

I've seen "good" and "bad" layoffs. I've been laid off, and I have laid staff off. It can be done in an organized fashion and done in a way that attempts to minimize the trauma involved in the event. At one place, my supervisor escorted me to my office, and even carried boxes to my car, instead of asking security to do it. We still keep in touch ten years later.