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.
FINALLY, someone recognized that layoffs are a failure by management.
Unless you are simply going out of business or were making buggy whips and have no alternatives there are much better alternatives than layoffs. Layoffs are also a product of offshoring work. Let’s face it, you don’t need manufacturing employees when you can get Juan or Wang to do it much cheaper.
Someone is right... the management consultants started this crap and the quarter-to-quarter mentality of short sighted foolish and tool managers looking after only their own skins and pocket books is what fosters layoffs. Get mine and get out. To hell with the future of the company, the share holders or anyone else.
I won’t say never but I have not worked as an employee for going on 15 years because of layoffs and I have not missed a single day I wanted to work either in all that time. There is a price to pay and I pay it.
There was an article in the American Management Magazine back about 1998 that said layoffs will change the face of corporate America for 40 years. Out with the people who valued people and in with the people who “make the hard decisions” to let people go while they still stay and collect bonuses for “a job well done”. They are nothing but Judas Goats.