Was talking to colleagues about this and make some sense. I am sure there is a number and list of ppl they want off the books for sure of course others they probably don't. Why not get management together per team and discuss who is on the list and ones that have to go. Then management in the so called 1 -1 can discuss, hey you might want to think about taking it. There are managers out there that have given heads up to there reports in the past rifs. This will make it much easier to decide. I know there will he negatives to this as well, but for the majority it would help.
I can bet most if not all the 30+ are on the get rid of list. I did hear, rumor of course that a few ppl with close to 30 were approached in person to "discuss".
At the point management has had no say in the decisions, since they are offered as well. So as others have said, not an easy decisions as some outside the company think it is.
This is now being discussed in the not so big news outfits, surprised CNBC isn't all over this on a daily basis as they just announced 230k payroll adds!!