When employer-in-chief Donald Trump announced Tuesday his plan to terminate all remaining Biden-era U.S. attorneys, he delivered the news using a modern-day medium—Truth Social, the messaging platform majority-owned by the president himself.

But in the era of Zoom and social media, are other employers following Trump's example and resorting to technology when delivering such unwelcome news? And does it matter if the employer skips the traditional, if unpleasant, face-to-face meeting when terminating an employee?

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Charles Toutant

Charles Toutant is a litigation writer for the New Jersey Law Journal.

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