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> His turnaround also cut roughly a third of the airline’s workforce, about 16,000 people. At first glance that looks an awful lot like bullying the hen
by beedyg 11y ago
> His turnaround also cut roughly a third of the airline’s workforce, about 16,000 people.
At first glance that looks an awful lot like bullying the hen
- j2bax 11y agoOr is it killing the hen to ensure the other hens can continue eating and being happy?
- vidarh 11y agoHe also returned the company to profitability, and brought it back out of bankruptcy, without which it's very much possible that all of the staff rather than "just" 1/3 would have had to find new jobs. It's perfectly possible he could have managed without, or with fewer, redundancies, but pointing to redundancies as evidence he's not thinking of staff is short-sighted. It sucks to have people lose jobs, but the solution to that is not to have companies hold on to unsustainable amounts of staff to the extent where they are at risk of failing.
- beedyg 11y agoIf one assumes that the 1/3 job losses were 'trimming the fat', I'd still argue that enforced liposuction constitutes bullying (if not outright assault). The decision to cut the workforce may have been the right one but since the thrust of the article was the effectiveness of his philosophy I think it's only fair to highlight how it was applied.