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> This trip is not necessarily a bad thing to have done, and more likely than not a good thing. I find people often underestimate how much employees cost and o
by admax88qqq 4y ago
> This trip is not necessarily a bad thing to have done, and more likely than not a good thing.
I find people often underestimate how much employees cost and overestimate how much things like a Vegas offsite cost.
Even if you send a team of 20 to The Virgin Islands at say $10,000 a head, that's only $200,000. That pays for what, 1-3 salaries for the next year?
Layoffs don't happen when companies are broke and cannot afford to spend money on anything. They usually happen to _prevent_ companies from going broke.
- viraptor 4y agoNow, would you rather take a dip in morale of 20 people, or the rest of the company? And how does that translate into long term list revenue?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> would you rather take a dip in morale of 20 people, or the rest of the company? If a sales team taken on rev-em-up blows someone’s morale the company’s culture is broken. The reaction betrays a lack of trust in management. Suspicion they’re acting for non-company promoting reasons. Management needs to figure out why that trust gap is there and address it directly, not put forward another act where feel-good measures that compromise the company are taken because they’re easy.
- thfuran 4y ago>Suspicion they’re acting for non-company promoting reasons. Well, those would seem to have been well-founded suspicions in this case.
- tpxl 4y agoWhen a company sends me on a business trip in luxury transport in a luxury hotel so I can sit in meetings I have no reason to attend, then refuses to give me a 100$/month raise because there's no money, the only thing I'll be estimating is how many months I have left at the company.