What your layoff email actually says.
Paste the email. You get the corporate language translated line by line, and, more usefully, every deadline it buried: the severance review window, when your coverage ends, what goes back and when. Free for everyone, no paid plan needed.
WHAT THEY SAY VS. WHAT IT MEANS
"As part of our commitment to operational excellence, we are streamlining our organizational structure."
That sentence cost someone their job and still didn't say so. Paste your layoff email and this reads it twice: once for the corporate language (translated), and once for the clocks hiding in it, the severance window, the benefits end date, the deadlines nobody bolded.
EXAMPLE OUTPUT
THE PART TO TAKE SERIOUSLY
Severance review window
The agreement gives 21 days to review. Do not sign it today.
"You have twenty-one (21) days to consider this Agreement."
Benefits end
Coverage runs through the end of the month; the COBRA election clock starts after.
"Your benefits will continue through June 30."
Equipment return
Laptop back within 14 days, shipping label provided.
WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY SAYING
They decided this weeks ago, the lawyers wrote most of it, and the two sentences that matter are the ones about your last day and the agreement they'd like signed. The gratitude paragraph is for their all-hands deck, not for you.
THE TRANSLATION
"streamlining our organizational structure"
layoffs. This sentence is why you're reading this.
"this decision was not made lightly"
it was made on a spreadsheet, in a conference room, in April.
"we're grateful for your contributions"
please don't post about us.
"to support you through this transition"
here is the minimum, described warmly.
What it conspicuously doesn't say (ask HR)
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Whether unused PTO is paid out, and when
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Whether they'll agree to reference language in writing
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