Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a...
by red-iron-pine on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:12AM
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> poisoned it with the engagement algos that put politics and fake news on top, and drove people away.
publicly traded company. they have to keep that quarterly income up, and on a long enough timeline that means taking whatever revenue you can. if you don't your executives keep getting sacked until they find ones who will do the job.
it's not a question of if they'd do shady stuff but when.
or else they pull a Microsoft and start expanding into wildly unrelated fields like the Zune (which failed) or the XBox (which is huge).
publicly traded company. they have to keep that quarterly income up, and on a long enough timeline that means taking whatever revenue you can. if you don't your executives keep getting sacked until they find ones who will do the job.
it's not a question of if they'd do shady stuff but when.
or else they pull a Microsoft and start expanding into wildly unrelated fields like the Zune (which failed) or the XBox (which is huge).