I've lost my best people consistently over the past two years. I understand that talent comes at a cost, but eliminating it is strategically unsound. We're not just watching institutional knowledge disappear, we're dismantling the very core that holds teams together. Leadership may see short-term savings, but this criterion for cuts will end up costing us far more.
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Housing thousands of employees in big admin buildings isn't necessary either, and yet here we are.
Here's the Ugly Truth, my children:
Top talent and the attendant cost isn't needed to do the vast majority of jobs at this company. People always scream about the risk of losing in-house knowledge, but that risk has never been realized. The C-suite knows this and is using a legally-defensible numbers-based approach to cut costs.
You're assuming that the goal is to keep WF as a company. Based on Chainsaw's actions, my best guess is that WF will be sold for parts - so dismantling and making it weaker is probably the point.
Pretty sad that you had to use AI to write this. Means a lot more when something is written by an actual person. The atrophy of basic skills will hit hard when everybody relies on AI for everything.
That rickety sound you hear is from the wheel on the stagecoach right before it shatters. In hostile Indian terry.
15k to go