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Layoff Announcement
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-layoff
Write the layoff communications a leader has to get right once — the all-hands script, the affected/unaffected messages, and the external note, without corporate euphemism or legal risk. Use when asked to write a layoff announcement, communicate a RIF, tell the team about job cuts, or draft the difficult all-hands. Produces the full comms set: leader script, same-hour messages for affected and remaining staff, manager talking points, and the external statement — sequenced.
What to give it
▸The facts: — how many, which teams, why (real reason), what severance/support is offered
▸The sequence and timing — who learns when; same-day individual notifications?
▸Who owns the decision — the script's speaker must own it, not "the business"
▸Legal constraints — jurisdiction notice rules (e.g., mass-layoff notification laws), anything counsel flagged; mark as [counsel review] where relevant
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The decision lands in the first two sentences of every message
✓Ownership language throughout — a named human made this decision
✓Every support item is a number or a date
✓The sequence is stated and individuals precede groups
✓Zero euphemisms — read it once hunting only for them
✓[counsel review] marks anything touching legal terms
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not warm up to the news — preamble is cruelty with better manners
Do not say "impacted roles" — people, named as people, in active voice
Do not celebrate strategy in the same breath ("this positions us for growth") — there's a room full of people it didn't position
Do not promise "no more layoffs" unless it's true — the second breach costs all remaining trust
Do not outsource the hard questions to HR in the all-hands — the decider answers, or the script failed
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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