Cross Country Checkup1:51:35FULL EPISODE: Have you ever experienced a sudden layoff?
Terry Compton’s 24 years at a Toronto university’s English as a second language program ended with a four-minute Zoom call in March 2020.
She said her director’s camera was off and a “second-in-command” informed her and her colleagues that they had been permanently laid off because of the impact of COVID-19.
“It felt inhuman and cruel,” she told Cross Country Checkup.
Compton said the chat function in the meeting was off and no followup questions were allowed.
Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society program, isn’t sure digital communication
