• superkret@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    The problem is that this way, your best people with the most options leave first.
    Those you want to keep long enough to do the re-structuring and make the numbers on the books look good, so you can sell the company before it disintegrates completely.

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      2 months ago

      Aren’t those people also the first to be let go? They’re the most expensive and you can maximize short term profits by letting go to expensive employees and hiring on cheap ones.

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      2 months ago

      Not always. I think the best people think they WON’T be let go and some others who don’t perform, figure they are on the chopping block.

      In our case it didn’t matter because they wound up having four rounds of layoffs before shutting that location down entirely. So it really wound up being WHEN you were fired, not IF.