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Feb 28, 2002

The perfect storm

When companies lay off their employees, IROs are often left to do the chop talk.

In the fall of 2000, I got a call from a friend who'd just been laid off from online ad company AdForce. He was caught completely off guard by the news; and he was clearly shaken by the scene at the Manhattan sales office, where some of his more established co-workers (family men and women) had much more at stake than he (a single guy, no mortgage). Conflicting reactions emerged as I spoke to some of our mutual friends. On the one hand, there was general sympathy for his plight, and in fact

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