Build With Heart and Balance

A Field Guide to Humane Termination

Mar 23, 2026

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Every Atlassian will receive an email within the next twenty minutes.

That sentence dropped in a pre-recorded video from CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes on March 11, 2026, moments before 1,600 people learned they no longer worked at a collaboration software company. Twenty minutes. Enough time to make coffee. Not enough time to find out who you are without the b…

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