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Kudos to RadioShack - business must be booming. I mean, it would take far too long to tell people face-to-face that they're fired. So they probably saved at least $20 in staff time by e-mailing 400 head office employees to tell them not to come to work anymore.

RadioShack Uses E-Mail to Fire Employees:

RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters got messages Tuesday morning saying: "The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated."

Company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that layoff notices would be delivered electronically, spokeswoman Kay Jackson said. She said employees were invited to ask questions before Tuesday's notification on a company intranet site.

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