Proving that he has his finger on the pulse when it comes to his employees, 55-year-old CEO Peter Harkins just sent a company-wide email in which he blamed remote work for “hurting company culture.” This comes after the third consecutive round of layoffs he just authorized.
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I feel like the CEO should be required to resign if they let a company get to the point where multiple rounds of layoffs are required. They need to own the failure of their decisions.
Sadly, at the board level, layoffs aren’t seen as a failure. They are preferred.
Then the news should report it as if the company is doing bad. That will make the shareholders freak out.
“Company X financially looking bad, tries to compensate by laying off essential workers.”
"Another round of layoffs at Company X, are they on a brink of bankruptcy?
Oh I’m well aware. My former company just sold my department to an outsource company at the same time they laid off. We are all just numbers.
I feel like that is the norm nowadays. Like overbooking on flights, although it is so unethical, they do it because they can get away with it.