Layoffs At Patagonia

Kate Robertson for The Daily from Outdoor Retailer:

Outdoor retailer Patagonia laid off 41 employees, or 1% of its workforce, yesterday at its Ventura, California headquarters as part of a broad review of its corporate operations.

The product releases as of late have felt flat, so this news doesn’t surprise me. Even the mighty Patagonia has been affected by the aftermath of COVID/supply chain shortages/inflation and other factors.

What gets me though in the memo posted by CEO Ryan Gellert is this sentence:

Gellert emphasized that the employees who were impacted were not at fault.

I don’t have the original wording in front of me here and can only quote the published article, but this is the lamest sentence ever. Let’s hope the actual message going out to employees was a bit more honest and empathetic.