ALSO NOTE THIS:
The corporate movement away from job security coincided with the advent of big executive bonuses and the rise of global competition. Consulting firms seized the moment and devised practices to teach companies how to eliminate staff.
“Those jobs are gone, boys, and they ain’t comin’ back!”
Here’s the dirty little secret.
In the Era of Baraq, there’s no jobs.
So you flush 10% of your employees and work the rest like rented mules, and most don’t have options to go elsewhere.
Job mobility is a tiny fraction of what it used to be, but you’ll never see a series about that on the MSM.
Didn’t you mean to post this at DU or maybe the HuffPo?
Depends on your local labor laws. When I worked for a company based in Washington state layoffs were the best way to fire people. We had layoffs every year, always some good excuse cooked up, but when you examined the list it was really all the folks that in a normal state would have been fired months ago.
I must reiterate that this is a left wing article, written by an anti-business left wing blogger, and it’s posted on a CNN website (NOT Fortune Magazine BTW). The article assumes running a business is easy and that corporations exist to produce jobs first and foremost.
Oh come on. It is hardly “always” business owners’ faults.
Government can screw things up that they don’t see coming that wind up negatively affecting their business, which otherwise would have kept on going okay.
So when taxes get punitively higher on businesses and materials increase and deductions erased and the government becomes more anti-business across the board, it’s still the businesses’ fault they lay people off? Ridiculous. Utter bullcrap.
This is transference of anger from politicians onto business people/private sector. Those mean evil rich business owners are the reason you’re fired, they didn’t anticipate our agenda would screw them in ways they couldn’t imagine, or to the degree they got screwed.
Gimme a damn break.
How can this woman be a consultant? She doesn’t even understand one of the most basic tools of management....SWOT. She evidently has forgotten that there are other players besides management and employees. That said, most American management fails to use SWOT, which shows how poor management is in this country.
Pathetic responses. No arguments refuting anything said in the article, only accusations of stalinism and similar crimes against humanity. And the old cliche that the article and anyone reading it belongs at DU.
I must say that it is the first article in the business press that I’ve seen, that attempts to examine the phenomena of layoffs, which as it notes did not exist on such a mass scale 30 years ago. I’ve seen so many of them, so many done perfidiously, age discrimination, ethnic discrimination (no Hindus laid off), position discrimination (staff members laid off, no managers, managers left with no underlings), and layoff sizes small enough so that neither the SEC, nor the Wall Street has to be notified.
But anyone seeing the dark side of the issue is a Communist, right?
Heh heh. That is a great point that the writer makes. I don't care what the writer's political affiliation is - that is a great point that she makes.