I think it would be more clear if you thought of a company in terms of disjoined silos rather than a large single thinking machine. One division (silo) needs to cut from their P&L while another just got the green light to expand. More than likely they don't talk to each other in large companies. At best you have a VP or SVP a layer or two up that controls both. That person just dictates what the silos need to do and doesn't concern themselves with the how (retraining).

And then you have places like Dell, where one friend was actively forced out by his manager and prevented from moving to a different group that desperately wanted him, just so that the bad manager could get the satisfaction of shitting on this guy as much and as hard as possible.

Oh, and also making sure that he was forced to pay for Cobra and go through the whole re-hire contingency process, and screwing up his seniority at the company.

There are some hateful, hateful people out there whose only joy is causing as much pain as possible for other people.

Hmm. I wonder what POTUS gave them that idea.....

And I'm guessing they found them otherwise retraining their old employees would have been more attractive.

No, they had trouble finding people for the price they were willing to pay and the skill they expected.