you are the general manager of a sizable car dealership in Lubbock, Texas. Although your dealership narrowly escaped closure during the recent recession, car and truck sales continue to decline. To remain profitable, you will need to eliminate five positions within the dealership.
Before you begin laying off employees, you decide that, to avoid misinformation, your employees should know about the dealership's difficult situation and your plans to reduce the size of its staff. You begin to plan a message to the employees to prepare them for the hard decisions that the dealership will have to make in the next few months.
The best channel for delivering the previous message is a