https://www.businessinsider.com/att-ceo-memo-workplace-loyalty-dead-employees-job-security-2025-8
"Even if the vast majority stay, the people who leave are typically the highest performers... there's now decades of rigorous research showing how fear is a terrible way to get the best work from your employees. Faster work? Maybe. But it'll be sloppier, less creative, and ultimately less innovative at a time when companies desperately need their teams to stay ahead..."
We spend more time with coworkers and superiors than with family members. I used to think that most people would demand to be treated with respect in their lives. The last decade in the tech field has shown me that people are surprisingly unwilling to stand up for themselves as long as they are getting some form of paycheck. Many even seem to long to be pushed around and told what to do. They are comfortable in miserable situations. To be given autonomy and respect might mess with their head. I think this "new world" that corporate environments are hastening towards is going to settle the question once-and-for-all for me. I look to my left and my right, and I see either people resigned to live in squalor of our own making OR people just aimlessly angry at everything and waiting to watch the whole world burn. Is it really so hard to say "no" to these corporate empty suits demanding too much of you and returning far too little?