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Honest question, why would they care?
by throwawayq3423 6mo ago
Honest question, why would they care?
- danmaz74 6mo agoFor the morale of remaining employees?
- kibwen 6mo agoHonest question, why would they care? The rancher does not care about the morale of the cattle as they're being led to slaughter.
- jimkleiber 6mo agoAnd that includes them, the people doing the layoffs, who are employees as well. And what we often don't realize is that causing the pain to others most often causes pain to us as well. Human group output and productivity can rely a lot on trust, and if that trust is damaged, it can hinder all productivity.
- bombcar 6mo agoI've seen layoffs with severance so good that the remaining employees felt bad themselves.
- rootusrootus 6mo agoHa! So true. Our last layoff had severance so generous that I told my manager next time pick me.
- evilduck 6mo agoThe last time my company did layoffs they offered the same generous severance package afterwards to anyone else who wanted it. We had three people take the offer.
- viccis 6mo agoAs far as actual people? Depends on their personal moral code and is why colleges make people take ethics, even if I don't think that results in anything other than more elaborate ways to justify doing whatever they feel like anyway. Most people would agree that you should minimize suffering in others if you can, but people who make it to upper management and C suites often got there by not being bothered by such scruples. As far as the company is concerned, obviously there's no reason not to care aside from not wanting to lose any critical employees who value stability. That's why many of the labor protections we take for granted now were fought for many years in the past.