Snark aside, it depends. Corporations are so used to applying arbitrary values to ephemeral things on their balance sheets that I think such a mentality seeps

Snark aside, it depends. Corporations are so used to applying arbitrary values to ephemeral things on their balance sheets that I think such a mentality seeps over into highly skilled employees in some cases. In other cases, the business's viability is determined by how many minimum wage (or better yet, off the books entirely) laborers can be obtained in a given week. See: every construction project in every US state, for example.