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There were few scenes of workers packing up their cubicles, shoving plaques in boxes and commiserating over beers. Instead, there were tweets.

Hung Truong, an engineer, watched his Twitter feed fill with layoff-related posts this past week. Friends and former colleagues were all out of work. Truong, 39, had been there. At the start of the pandemic, he’d lost his job at Lyft. And he recalled the strange relief of posting that on Twitter, knowing he wouldn’t have to give the painful update to followers one by one.

That’s an experience thousands are now sharing, as Twitter, Meta and other companies slash their workforces: getting laid off in a time of extreme transparency, with social media providing an outlet for immediate processing.

This took on a particularly ironic twist at Twitter, where employees used a platform that had created this new era of workplace transparency to talk about their own workplace. Alternately angry and reflective tweets from laid-off Twitter workers stacked up under the hashtags #LoveWhereYouWorked and #TwitterLayoffs.

“It was the most humanity-affirming moment that as each tweet was fired, we all posted,” wrote Rumman Chowdhury, who had worked in ethics and transparency at the company, adding the emoji of a salute. “We laughed and rejoiced in the decency and kindness of...

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