Overheard a discussion about the WFH policy change and what I heard makes sense.
The guy was saying that the last layoff was probably supposed to be bigger but, with all the remote workers, they couldn't get who they were after. So the change is probably because "Honeywell gave a layoff, and nobody came."
In other words - they couldn't just walk up and tap remotes on the shoulder and walk them right out.
You have to actually get them to come in, and bring in all HW related assets and materials with them. No way you can do that without them knowing why they are suddenly getting called in, and that gives the chance to contact people, send emails, make posts, maybe even do damage by way of their network access - delete files, corrupt data, etc.
Maybe not everyone would do it, but some would.
So they went ahead, laid of whoever they could get last time, killed the remote policy so the people they wanted to get now "have to" come in. And then announce a new layoff right away after the last one in order to finish up what they wanted to get all along.
I imagine that them NOT getting all the people they wanted probably made Cote flip his balding little lid since he couldn't kill enough careers to show the falsely inflated profit margin his bonus is tied to when he leaves.
All of it really shows the dipstick has been paying about zero attention to how the company actually works and gets things done.