The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.
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Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks.
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.
I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
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