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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5361390" data-attributes="member: 58197">The alternative is &quot;Plan ahead and only hire people on a long-term basis when you really think you need someone long-term.&quot; If you don't think you'll need somebody a year from now, hire that person as a temp or on a freelance basis.Layoffs* are a very destructive thing to do to a business. They disrupt day-to-day operations, severely damage employee morale, and result in loss of institutional knowledge.Does that mean no company should ever lay anyone off? No... but it means that layoffs should be undertaken only as an emergency measure, in dire fiscal straits. If a company is facing dire fiscal straits year after year, then either the industry is dying around it or something is badly broken at the executive level. And if the industry is dying, there shouldn't be any new hires to replace the laid-off people.[size=-2]*As opposed to firing, which is a quite different thing. Layoffs are when you take people who are doing their jobs well and send them packing to improve the company's short-term bottom line. Firing is when you get rid of people who suck.[/size]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5361390, member: 58197"] The alternative is "Plan ahead and only hire people on a long-term basis when you really think you need someone long-term." If you don't think you'll need somebody a year from now, hire that person as a temp or on a freelance basis. Layoffs* are a very destructive thing to do to a business. They disrupt day-to-day operations, severely damage employee morale, and result in loss of institutional knowledge. Does that mean no company should ever lay anyone off? No... but it means that layoffs should be undertaken only as an emergency measure, in dire fiscal straits. If a company is facing dire fiscal straits year after year, then either the industry is dying around it or something is badly broken at the executive level. And if the industry is dying, there shouldn't be any new hires to replace the laid-off people. [size=-2]*As opposed to firing, which is a quite different thing. Layoffs are when you take people who are doing their jobs well and send them packing to improve the company's short-term bottom line. Firing is when you get rid of people who suck.[/size] [/QUOTE]

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