Agreed on the parent comment, the human element is very real. Morale especially during a time of global pandemic is a knife edge to manage.
> The risk with firing 900 people all at once is what if, in a month, everything is good and they need them all back? By only letting go of small groups of people at a time, you both hedge yourself to future risk while also staying open to future up swings.
Again you're looking at it too closely to a machine. Machines don't care and pure efficiency says this statement is correct/better.
If you treat your staff like a portfolio, you are not carrying the tenants of being a good leader.
That's not to say that people don't do that. It happens all the time - treating employees sub-human, merely pawns to be sacrificed.
A portfolio is a portfolio and the analogy does-not/should-not carry well to staff lest we all be slaves where literal ownership of other humans is acceptable again.
> The risk with firing 900 people all at once is what if, in a month, everything is good and they need them all back? By only letting go of small groups of people at a time, you both hedge yourself to future risk while also staying open to future up swings.
Again you're looking at it too closely to a machine. Machines don't care and pure efficiency says this statement is correct/better.
If you treat your staff like a portfolio, you are not carrying the tenants of being a good leader.
That's not to say that people don't do that. It happens all the time - treating employees sub-human, merely pawns to be sacrificed.
A portfolio is a portfolio and the analogy does-not/should-not carry well to staff lest we all be slaves where literal ownership of other humans is acceptable again.