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We’ve significantly raised the bar on our expectations of employee performance, resulting in approximately 1,050 employees leaving the company who are not meeting expectations and who we believe will be more successful outside of Intuit.

This was the paragraph from Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi which triggered widespread criticism on the Internet. Hard to see the value of this type of communication - perhaps a signal for remaining employees to up their game? Damaging to EB for sure, but perhaps Goodarzi thought the trade off worth it.