> After all, employees generate more money than they cost, that's the entire point of employees. That is only true for profitable business and only true _on av

> After all, employees generate more money than they cost, that's the entire point of employees. That is only true for profitable business and only true _on average_ across all employees. It isn't true for each employee individually. Some employees are a lot more valuable at generating money than others. This isn't necessarily the employee's fault. With layoffs and restructurings the business should be trying to improve that average profitability per employee.