You can report a dismissal to a person in different ways: face to face, by phone, or by sending a letter by mail. But it turns out that this can be done using an IM client.
The Yahoo portal conducted a survey, the results of which revealed that about 14% of men are ready to inform their subordinates about dismissal through an instant messaging program using some kind of smiley. Just ready to do 11% of women who participated in the survey.