There's no reason for layoffs to be time-correlated if that is the reason. Unless you think the sports analogy is strong enough to support ideas like "seasons"

There's no reason for layoffs to be time-correlated if that is the reason. Unless you think the sports analogy is strong enough to support ideas like "seasons"? Dream team reasoning should ideally be applied semi-randomly -- if you need it to be enforced make the "reminder we are a dream team" messaging different and randomly chosen for different aspects of management and maybe even just introduce artificial delays to stagger firings so they are not clumped into groups ... group firings are a wall street signal not a management strategy ...