How to Hire People You Might Lay Off Someday

Hiring & Firing with Fexingo: Recruitment, Performance, and Workforce Decisions · Aug 18, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Lucas and Luna dig into a counterintuitive hiring strategy: building a workforce that stays productive even through layoffs. They examine how one mid-sized logistics firm used a 'hire-to-survive' approach—cross-training, documenting tribal knowledge, and keeping a lean bench of flexible roles—to avoid the chaos of their last reduction in force. The episode walks through the specific practices that made the difference: running 'layoff drills' before any downturn, measuring teams on their ability to redistribute work, and creating a severance playbook that turns affected…