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I'll flip that on its head: if a company will benefit from layoffs, those people should have already been fired. The fact that they weren't is probably contribu
by lmkg 17y ago
I'll flip that on its head: if a company will benefit from layoffs, those people should have already been fired. The fact that they weren't is probably contributing to the dire straits forcing the layoffs.
I think the only other time that layoffs are a good idea is if you're closing an entire business unit/department to retreat from a market and focus on your strengths.
- jimbokun 17y ago"if a company will benefit from layoffs, those people should have already been fired." Or even better, never hired in the first place. Frequent layoffs are evidence of incompetent management, as they keep hiring people they don't actually need and then must let them go again. Better to just go slow on hiring, adding people only when absolutely necessary. Then layoffs are unnecessary.
- sabat 17y agoGood philosophy; I wish companies operated this way. Most don't. I'm talking about big ones here, not the smaller, can-do companies who can't afford "dead wood" at all. The politicos want to build empires, and they hire people who are pliant and will bend to their will, and are not usually competent.