Image: Vera Turning Corporate Layoffs into Strategic, Compassionate Transitions In a business climate characterized by rising interest rates, persistent inflation, and the accelerating impact of automation and AI on job design, Vera’s mission is simple but urgent: to humanize workforce transformation and to help companies lead through change, not retreat from it. Why Vera? Why now? While mass layoffs across industries from Amazon and UPS to Target have made headlines in 2025,