Slightly different translation: We need to lay people off, but announcing layoffs will drop our stock prices, so enacting policies to get people to quit - especially if those policies disproportionately target people with disabilities, health issues, people who don’t conform to our economic or social values (must be willing to be yanked around by corporate, be willing to live paycheck to paycheck in high cost of living area, must not have other priorities such as children) - so that we don’t have to deal stock price drops or lawsuits for laying off vulnerable members of staff.

It’s ‘secret layoff’ with a purity test.
Folks who are less committed to the corporate bullshit fail. Folks who have other priorities fail. Those who really believe, or are desperate for the job are left behind.