Mass General Brigham CEO Letter Omits Layoffs — SkimNews
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- Mass General Brigham began laying off workers less than two weeks before Anne Klibanski sent the internal email.
- Anne Klibanski emailed roughly 85,000 employees late Monday, saying the health system faced urgent financial challenges and needed to make improvements.
- Anne Klibanski wrote that MGB “must improve our performance and make thoughtful decisions about how we use our resources,” but the letter provided no specifics and raised more questions than it answered.
- Mass General Brigham was changing how it operates and uses its workforce, yet the letter never mentioned layoffs or described the operational changes.
Why it matters: For roughly 85,000 employees, the timing is material: layoffs had begun less than two weeks before Klibanski’s email about financial challenges. Because the message disclosed no operational details and did not mention layoffs, workers received no stated explanation of the workforce changes underway.
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