True, they violated people's privacy in a coward way and terminated all those that were in private whatsapp groups, some of them didn't even write in the group but since they were admin, they were fired without appeal. The official excuse was of course Covid19.As expected, some friends of friends managed to escape the penalty, typical QR style.
For the same reason, as an excuse, they made redundant some of the best instructors they had, more than 10 years seniority, just because they were talking politely about the new contract.
This is the dictator way to scare employees and to silence every rumor at the same time, it worked perfectly, no whatsapp groups anymore, people even removed their profile picture in their private whatsapp, now tell me if this is normal.