The all-hands said family, then said efficiency
Two slides, forty seconds apart, and the room did the math.
Slide four says we are a family. It has a photo of the summer party, and you can see four people in it who no longer work here. Slide five says operational efficiency and has a chart pointing the way charts point when the news is coming. The presenter reads both in the same warm voice. Nobody in the room breathes wrong, but every laptop tilts down at once, and the group chat fills up faster than the questions box. In Q and A someone asks whether the family thing is still accurate. The answer contains the phrase difficult decisions and takes ninety seconds without ever using a verb about people. The meeting ends four minutes early, which tells you everything.