The key is in "tightly knit workforce". Back during the Big Recession of 2008, my then-bosses announced that they were going to require mandatory unpaid timeof

The key is in "tightly knit workforce". Back during the Big Recession of 2008, my then-bosses announced that they were going to require mandatory unpaid timeoff* from every employee in order to minimize the number of positions being eliminated. That meeting had not even ended, and people was already bitching about how they were not going to be able to keep afloat their over-leveraged lifestyles, and how unfair it was for them to subsidize the non-unemployment of a bunch of losers. Apparently none of the complainers though they would end up on the loser side of things. *Nothing devastating, lit. one or two days per month.