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The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.
by ukoki 4y ago
The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.
- whiskey14 4y agoSo do you think he'll eventually bring back WFH for Tesla and Twitter when they want to increase headcount?
- tailspin2019 4y agoBased on reasoning in my other comment [0] I think this is highly likely. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33544756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33544756
- tailspin2019 4y ago> The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this. This is why I found reading his published chat messages [0] so interesting. From the horse's mouth (the horse in this case being Jason Calacanis) to Musk, when talking about restructuring: > "2 day a week Office requirement= 20% voluntary departures" So it does seem possible that this could be at least partly driving this. As an aside: The other interesting nugget in the msg logs was discussion about taking Twitter private to restructure (because it would require haemorrhaging users while they cleaned up bots etc. - and also likely because you wouldn't be able to take such aggressive actions re. mass sackings in quite the same way when public) and then going public again once this restructuring process has been completed. [0] https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/ https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/
- DonsDiscountGas 4y agoExcept that you lose your best people this way, rather than average/worst.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoOr maybe a mix? Although maybe Musk thinks the in person workers are the best.
- cmeacham98 4y agoPeople that quit voluntarily are always skewed towards the high end, because better employees have an easier time finding another job with similar benefits/pay but has that one thing they want. The only way this would make sense as a downsizing tactic would be if you believe that employees that prefer to work remote (enough to the point where they would consider quitting) are significantly worse than the average Twitter employee.
- praptak 4y agoThe worst will stay and do so with a vengeance.
- torben-friis 4y agoThis is exactly why in my country the law uses the concept of 'acquired rights'. Basically, if an employee is consistently given a perk for a certain time, said perk implicitly becomes part of the contract and taking it away allows the worker to quit receiving the same compensation as if they've been fired.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoSeems like that could just make companies hesitant to give out any perks in the first place. Law of unintended consequences and all that.
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- notfromhere 4y agoStating a remote policy in your contract and then forcing an RTO is basically constructive dismissal
- mrguyorama 4y agoMost high GDP countries don't have a business culture of optimizing for maximum cash in the owners hand at all possible costs, and indeed, even are interested in giving their employees a fair shake. Most places understand that employees are valuable and deserve dignity and respect, and have taken steps to ensure they get it.
- harshalizee 4y agoCurious, which country(s) is this?