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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by bbzealot on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:20AM (#34531277)
Yet the fact that shareholders want to get richer doesn’t mean that laying off people when a company is drowning in money is ethically right.
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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by s1artibartfast on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:46AM (#34533174)
If you want to look at it simply in terms of ethics, I'm not sure layoffs are always unethical, even if the company is profitable.

I do think it is unethical to jerk people around (e.g. new hires), but I think generous severance goes a long way towards addressing this.

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