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My friend, an immigrant to my country, was laid off two weeks ago and wasn't able to land a new job. She was 4 months away from getting her PR, but without a new job, she wouldn't qualify. After many stressful nights of crying, doing resume review and interview practice, she YOLO'd and sent the CEO of her old company an email asking to be employed until she got the PR, and the CEO simply said "Sure".
Absolutely crazy, and rare to see that sort of compassion. I'm super happy for her, even though it might be awkward, but getting over this cusp will lock her in on her new life.
In this context, the question really boils down to "Do you want to ruin your former employee's life to save a bit of company money?". Which should not be a hard decision, but there's way too many people who would disagree here. Kudos to the CEO to realize this and do the right thing, and good luck for your friend.
I think it's more that most of these issues would never actually reach the CEO if brought up through standard channels. Some bs middle management explanation of why it's not possible, even though they never passed it up. CEOs are still people, and if they just randomly receive an actual personal email that wasn't debated over by a board meeting or considered inconsequential by people they hired to micromanage, they're likely to just say fuck it why not.