Bad News Writing

Yippie, Inc., is a company based in Vallejo, California that provides
various services for users, including
allowing them to store video and audio files, presentations and other
files. It also offers its users (for a
fee) cloud storage, e-commerce solutions and more.
In April of 2015, the company decided to cease its service of al
lowing videos to be posted by users for
the Internet public in general to view. Due to intense competition
from sites like YouTube, Hulu, and
Vimeo, Yippie
’
s user base for its streaming video service has declined steadily and shows no
prospect of
rebounding.
Currently, 18 people work full time in Yippie
’
s video streaming department, which will be eliminated.
Yippie is committed to do everything possible to find position
s for these 18 employees with Yippee
’
s
other departments and the company will stop hiring external people so t
hat these employees can be
used to fill any spots than open in other departments in the near future. H
owever, it is clear that some
of the 18 employees will have to be let go. For those people, Yip
pie will be offering offering job
placement assistance and a generous severance package.
Please draft an email memorandum that will be sent to all 18 of Yippie
’
s video streaming department
employees to let them know the bad news and to give them the essential
s of this information. Please try
to make the email sound as nice and calming as possible without leaving
out any essential information.
Your email should be roughly 300-600 words long. You may make up an
y reasonable facts and
circumstances that you believe necessary to complete this assignment.