How you let employees go matters for your company's reputation.

Consider Better.com's CEO, who just fired roughly 900 employees in a very brief Zoom call and quickly faced backlash.

No one will ever react positively to hearing they are terminated -- whether it's due to balance sheet problems or their own performance. So it's incumbent on the person delivering the bad news to be as thoughtful as possible in how they conduct themselves and how they treat the people being let go. READ MORE