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[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only thing I could find is that Yes Madam is a real company and that the sender is indeed the HR head of that company. So if it's fake, someone kept the header and signature of a real email. Or maybe a real email sent on April 1st? I have a hard time believing that this is real (not that a company wouldn't do this, but the fact that they would admit to it so blatantly like it's not a bad thing).

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a news article linked in another comment.

It was real, and 100 people were fired.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In response, YES Madam stated on LinkedIn, apologising for any distress caused by the campaign. The company stated that it "would never take such a step" and that the action was intended to draw attention to the critical issue of workplace stress. source

I don’t even know what you were citing, but now that the news is out let this be a lesson to not just take everything in the news for granted. All the slop outlets were just reading the same screenshot in this post verbatim and did no original reporting.