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Why would you grow staff by 30% just to fire 7% of people next year?

• Strom 8y ago
  To meet short-term growth goals via human work. Everyone had a close eye on the number of cars produced. Now they're improving their efficiency and thus fewer people can achieve the same numbers.
• justin66 8y ago
  Poor planning which necessitated pulling back a lot of planned automation, followed by gradually making the whole operation more efficient. (as well as lack of a union, willingness to put employees through the overtime wringer, etc.)
• rb808 8y ago
  Rank and Yank. Hire lots of people and get rid of the people that aren't performing. Its great when you're a high performing company that everyone wants to work for, doesn't work if you aren't doing well and people have an extra reason to avoid you (see GE, GS right now)