Many fortune 500 companies who have financial trouble do things different:
- manditory shutdown. Just reduce job hours. Everyone has to take 1 day off a week. This reduces accounts payable/accruals
- ask for volunteers to retire. So easy. Just say we will pay full severance if you want to retire now.
- reduce salaries. Across board. Call it 1 or 2% reduction including board, executives, senior management and staff. Offset with stock awards (force investment back into company) so EVERYONE has a vested interest to improve
- Make employees stakeholders instead of expenses. You know, get employee representation in board of directors. Rotate this position to represent a line of business, that is elected every year, by the employees.
So many missed opportunities.....
Its like this company is run by id–ts.