What is the morale of employees in company where layoff happens

Just spoke to of my friend who works at India’s largest MSME startup where they feel negativity more now than before doing lay offs. Is this the case with other startups who did layoff?

Someone in ur team or someone u had good relationship (work wise) with gets laid off? Do u discontinue working as hard? Does ur team velocity decrease or increase as everyone does better for survival? Just wanna hear from folks who have gone through this and does employer not see any affect in work? (E.g. Twitter case)

After there was a layoff at your company 1- Impacted by layoff : Did your manager/team mates connect with you to keep you motivated? 2- The ones not impacted - Did your leadership/manager set up a team call to explain the reason for layoff and remove the fear/uncertainty that the rest of the people are safe. What did it tell you about the higher management of the company?

I don't know why everyone is making a big deal out of layoffs. Even the ones who laid off are not that concerned than the ones who comment. Laid off employees literally get free money upwards of 10 lakhs in many cases of senior developers who are laid off from top tech startups. Companies pay severance equal to 3-6 months salary of laid off employees. Some even offer other benefits as well. I personally know a couple of Devs who got around ~9-10L in severance pay. So, yeah if there are layoffs happening in funded tech startups or leading tech companies, considering their pay range, laid off employees get handsome severance pay including employee benefits

Tell your story and how you felt after seeing that mail or listening about the news. Indian startups should chase profitability instead of playing bigger fool game theory.

In your experience, what are some early signs that help detect incoming layoffs at a startup? It could be company-wide, team specific or in a particular function only.

I recently got laid off from my Company (they are unfortunately shutting down all major operations apart from sales) I worked to improve the company culture - benefits, engagement, learning and dev, wellness, cross team and inter city collaboration. Now that im job hunting, Im finding it incredibly difficult to find roles where the title of "people and culture" justifies the job description that is followed. Most often, the JD is an operations role where you only work on managing employee data, help with recruitment etc. So that brings me to the question - which are some of the startups that are truly looking to have a good culture and are open to hiring fresh talent?