Uber's layoff PR is wild. Yes, let's justify the layoff, in part, due to feedback from the employees themselves!!

> In Pulse surveys and conversations with many of you, we’ve heard that too much work requires coordination across teams, debates take too long, and decision-making rights are unclear. I’m sure many of you have felt that you spend too much time “aligning” rather than building, shipping, or serving customers. To improve this, we have reduced roles primarily focused on coordination, and have clarified the remit of the coordination roles that remain.

Yes, point the finger back at the employees as one reason why you're firing their colleagues. Yeah, maybe I'm strawmanning here, but any org leader who runs and owns Pulse results knows that employee trust in how the feedback is managed is incredibly critical to getting honest results in the first place. And honest results are necessary to improve things.

I actually do agree that more layers and more coordination hurts maximizing productivity in the agentic era. And yes, as much as they hurt, layoffs are a way of snapping quickly to that. But don't weaponize employee feedback so directly. Just own it!