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I get the point, but we are in the 21st Century. Very few people stay a Company (assuming stats are true) as they did before the 1990's.
In this case, the dog would have expected to stay in that home forever, where people in a company would probably move on after a few years.
I think it's a huge mistake. The great labor shortage is just beginning. You can thank the retiring boomers for that. (And I hope they enjoy their retirement!)
This place isn't your home, these people aren't your friends and your executive leadership would run you over with their cars if you stood between them and revenue growth. Your relationship to work changes forever. You will never again believe that you are "critical" to the company or that the company is interested in you as a person. This has always always been the case. Grow up.
The higher educated white collar class is coming to terms with the fact they are just as disposable as the rest of us.
We are all workers, we are the working class whether we are educated or not. The capital owners want the working class to fight amongst themselves because it allows them to continue enriching themselves off the backs of the working class. Even if you own some stocks or have a 401k, if you depend on a salary to pay your bills then you are a worker
Imagine that instead of a dog, it's an adult who makes their own choices and gets paid money, and who signed a contract where the terms of employment were spelled out very clearly..
> The downsized companies, however, were outperformed consistently by the nondownsized ones during the initial two years following the downsizing.
Can you think of any confounding factors in this analysis? How do you control for important factors like, say: whether the board is in enough financial trouble to downsize?
The higher educated white collar class is coming to terms with the fact they are just as disposable as the rest of us.
So what of the conditioning of employees by telling them: 'We're all a family', 'Sticking together in the long term!' and 'Everyone wins, yay!'. I don't think 'families' do abrupt layoffs en mass to their own in the morning.
The era of cruising on cheap money is over. It is time to learn to adapt with AI.
I think it's a huge mistake. The great labor shortage is just beginning. You can thank the retiring boomers for that. (And I hope they enjoy their retirement!)