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And they will start backing up anything and everything they can to take with them.
by samstave 7y ago
And they will start backing up anything and everything they can to take with them.
- ginko 7y agoWhy would they do that? Do you trust employees so little?
- whatshisface 7y agoLet's say you trust one employee a lot maybe with a 1 in 1,000 chance of defecting. The formula is 1-(1-1/1000)^n, so if you're sacking 1,000 people that's a 63% chance of at least one defection.
- oblio 7y agoIf you're firing 1000 employees and 1 "defecting" (war time vocabulary you're using there, referring to treason, by the way...) and your business is in trouble, then your foundation is very shaky. Plus if I were your competitor I could probably head hunt 5-10 of your key lay offs and probably have them recreate your IP just based on their collective memory, anyway. This paranoia should stop. It's covered by NDAs and such, anyway.
- whatshisface 7y ago>war time vocabulary you're using there, referring to treason, by the way... I was using it in reference to the cooperate/defect choice in the prisoner's dilemma. It's a term of art in game theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
- oblio 7y agoHow does this apply here, though? I don't think it does...
- jacquesm 7y agoYou speak only for yourself here.
- samstave 7y agoNope. Ive managed A lot of teams in the past, its very common for people to take data with them. Code, documentation, etc.
- Nasrudith 7y agoThat doesn't make sense as a concern. Layoffs are a loss cutting measure. If you are doing layoffs of things they produce then essentially by definition what you have isn't all that economically valueable to be worth stealing. It shouldn't be something they could "sell". If it is of value then why are you letting them go instead of producing something else of value in a follow up? Layoffs would be a squandering.