Businesses sometimes need to retrench employees. But that doesn’t mean those cuts need to be sloppy or cruel, says Beth Kowitt for Bloomberg Opinion. NEW YORK: The latest jobs numbers in the United States may have shown a drop in the number of pink slips hitting workers’ desks in May, but don’t be fooled: Layoffs are alive and well in 2025. In the first half of the year, US employers let go of nearly 745,000 people, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That’s the second-