# What united our guests: the importance of honesty

- **Episode:** [12](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/12.md) (2022-11-15)
- **Type:** other
- **Tags:** honesty, layoffs, communication
- **Time:** 29:17–30:56 (start 1757s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/12?t=1757](https://truthliesandwork.com/12?t=1757)

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[29:17] Leanne Elliott: One of the things that I really noted from talking to our guests this week, and one thing that really united people in their opinion on how things should be done. It's really about making sure that it's done with transparency and support. So let's hear from Alan first
[29:33] Al Elliott: And be honest with yourself and with your organization, saying it's tough times, we have to survive. This is the way we think is the best for the organization to survive. And how can we help you? What are the things that you will need? You probably will find 1% of the audience that you're planning to fire to be extremely vulnerable. So what do you do to do the extra mile to protect them and give them the additional cushion? So those were the points that really came through in my conversations with those CEOs
[30:05] Leanne Elliott: And I think where a lot of, you know, that if you look at social media and people at Twitter who have been impacted, either people who are staying or people who have left, you know, there's understandable outrage because of the lack of communication from the leadership team, the fact that, that comms were signed by Twitter rather than a specific person. Um, and I think this is something quite shocking from, from Dr. Candace about communications at Twitter. I say this also, I still have many colleagues at Twitter. Um, they've received no communication from leadership whatsoever, um, still to this point. Um, and so, and the emails that said you know, we're going to be laying off, were unsigned. Like, there was no one person attached to that email. It's just Twitter