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RadioShack Uses E-Mail To Fire Workers
Company Defends Use Of E-Mail

POSTED: 4:51 am PDT August 31, 2006
UPDATED: 5:07 am PDT August 31, 2006

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Hundreds of RadioShack workers learned they had mail -- but no jobs.

The electronics giant is getting some flack for sending pink slips by e-mail.

Workers at the company's headquarters in Fort Worth found they were unemployed on Tuesday with the click of a mouse.

The layoffs took effect immediately, with RadioShack cutting some 400 jobs.

A spokeswoman defended the e-mails, saying workers had been told during meetings that that's how it would be done.

But a management professor at the University of North Texas said the electronic notification could be seen as dehumanizing to employees