First you cut the costs and get a bonus for that, then you fill the empty roles, and then get a bonus for that
Comment on Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time
ARk@lemm.ee 3 months agoWhy would they make employees quit when they are just going to hire again? Weeding out the job hoppers?
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 months ago
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Quarterly profits were down. Next quarter is irrelevant.
ofcourse@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Because a lot of CEOs these days only care about quarterly reports. When interest rates went up, companies cost to do business also went up, so to keep the red profit line going up, they had to cut costs somewhere. Labor makes up most of the expenses so layoffs and forced RTO happened.
These CEOs don’t care that they lose years of experience when employees leave. And by the time the lack of experience catches up to the companies shitting themselves, the CEOs hope to have moved on to something else with their massive stock rewards for “increasing shareholder value”. Even the Boeing CEO who wasn’t lucky enough to leave before shit hit the fan is going to get a golden parachute. So really no downside for them.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The computer did that auto-layoff thing.
ready_for_qa@programming.dev 3 months ago
It’s like when you cancel your Netflix when money is tight and then resub once you can afford it again.
We are just labor subscriptions for corporations.