An Indian employee working remotely for a US-based company has gone viral after sharing how they and several colleagues in India were laid off during a brief four-minute virtual meeting with the Chief Operating Officer (COO) without any prior warning or opportunity to ask questions.

The post, shared on Reddit, described the suddenness of the event. “I work from home for a US based company and it was literally like any other day, woke up at 8:30, logged into work at 9 and saw a calendar invite for 11. It was a mandatory meeting with our COO for all India employees. I joined it at 11, he joined at 11:01, disabled everyone’s cameras and mics, casually let us know that they had ‘made the difficult decision of letting most of their Indian work force go’,” the employee wrote.

The COO reportedl

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