If it’s true – which is rarely the case – a mass layoff is the worst way to deal with it: by your own figure, you have 9:1 odds of getting someone who isn’t a s

If it’s true – which is rarely the case – a mass layoff is the worst way to deal with it: by your own figure, you have 9:1 odds of getting someone who isn’t a slacker! This excuse is deployed in every layoff but rarely mentions that if true, most of the people losing jobs should be the managers who weren’t doing their jobs. I will also note that most of the people I have seen not contributing positively were responding to the incentives management had set, or coping with policies and resource cuts. Every time it’s been a large group of people, they were working hard at something counterproductive some VP or consulting company came up with, not sitting around watching Netflix.