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Why would they do that? Do you trust employees so little?

• whatshisface 7y ago
  Let'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 ago
    If 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 ago
        How does this apply here, though? I don't think it does...