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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5361434" data-attributes="member: 58197">Are we supposed to take it that annual layoffs are preferable to this?There's nothing wrong with contract and freelance work. RPG companies, including Wizards, hire freelancers all the time. It's the logical solution when you have a short-term project requiring extra hands, and WotC is in an excellent position for it.If you hire someone as a full-time employee, you should do so with the expectation of keeping that person around for a while. That isn't sentimentality, it's good business. Firing and hiring is expensive, both directly (severance pay, the application and interview process, associated paperwork) and indirectly (loss of institutional knowledge, disruption of work schedules, hit to employee morale). It's idiotic to incur those expenses if you could avoid them by planning ahead a bit.The only good reasons to engage in layoffs are if a) you're in a desperate fiscal position and literally cannot meet your short-term expenses any other way, or b) you have no realistic prospects for growth and need to reduce headcount permanently. The first case might happen once in a blue moon due to circumstances outside your control, but it's not a situation that any competently run company should find itself in on a yearly basis. The second case implies that you aren't going to be hiring anyone new, which is clearly not the case for WotC.</blockquote>