"If you would like to go home today and come back tomorrow to clean out your desk or office, you are free to do so. We would like you to meet with your manager following our meeting to transition your work. We will be communicating to your team today. Your manager will be contacting clients. We ask that you do not contact your clients to discuss this situation."
How would you like to get this message in your email box? What if it came from an HR professional at your company? What would you do?
Well -- every single employee at Carat, a struggling media agency, received this message by accident. Advertising Age reports that the company's "Chief People Officer" wrote the email for senior management to review. The above paragraph was meant as a sample of what could be sent to 10% of the workforce. But, the "Chief People Officer" accidentally sent the email, complete with PowerPoint presentations and Word documents, to the entire company.
What do the documents say? Take a look: Carat Restructuring Communications Plan and Carat Restructuring Memo.
You know, there are companies, like Permessa, that sell software designed to prevent accidental mailing list abuse. Maybe the IT department should look into it.
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