How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit

We investigate how mental-health signals are expressed and co-constructed in online discourse during corporate layoffs.

doi: 10.1145/3800935.3830872
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name: How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit
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authors: Aparup Khatua
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license: CC BY 4.0
summary: We investigate how mental-health signals are expressed and co-constructed in online discourse during corporate layoffs.
keywords: Layoffs; Online Discourse; Stress Appraisal Theory; Reddit
published: 2026-09-14
conference: HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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acm_reference_format: ACM Reference Format: Aparup Khatua. 2026. How Communities Process Layoffs: Appraisal, Coping, and Emotional Mediation on Reddit. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 7 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830872