Companies often encourage their employees to market their own homes, rather than have the company buy them. Another tool that 86 percent of companies use is to offer the transferring employee a no-interest loan to buy a new home while trying to sell his or her old one. The loan is repaid when the sale of the old home is completed. The odds are, very few. We're in an era of continual restructuring.
Companies decide to get out of a business and either sell it or shut it down.
The smart ones retrain good employees and give the others a large piece of go-away money. There really are no national figures on that. My guess is, it happens very infrequently. The popular conception is the boss as a ravening ogre, ready to fire away. But it really doesn't work that way for most bosses.