New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- A founder and CEO sharing his experience of firing 25 people at a job in a post on professional networking platform LinkedIn, has sparked a discussion over empathy during layoffs and the human impact of this process.

Narrating the process and its impact on him and the effected employees, Sampark Sachdeva, founder and CEO of SamparkSeSampark, stated that it was "the darkest day of my corporate career".

Sharing the time he had to fire 25 employees, back-to-back, Sachdeva wrote a poignant post detailing the difficulties shared by these staff on their way out.

"I saw the tear form at the corner of her eyes. And then, snap, it dropped. She was a single mother, sitting across the table. And I had to say the golden words...