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“#Layoffs are definitely a confession of poor #management," Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, told me. His reasoning: Research shows that generally, layoffs don't improve a company's fortunes. Quite the opposite: They don't reliably raise a company's profits or stock price, but they do reliably reduce remaining employees' morale, commitment, productivity, and trust.
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Are Layoffs a Confession of Bad Management?
Tech CEOs who are blaming their layoffs on the staffing up they did during the boom years of the pandemic should ask themselves some tough questions.Fortune US (Magzter)