"What worries me is how people on this board assume that it is so easy to cut headcount."
One way managers and execs make it easy to cut their workforce is by calling people "headcount". I have worked in a large corporation for 21 years and have noticed that in the past 5 years or so, organization charts no longer have names, they only have positions. Employees are no longer called "workers" or "team members" or any other humanizing name, they are called "assets" or "headcounts", which are non-humans or parts of humans.
I can't imagine a manager in a large company who is asked to fire multiples of people due to a massive lay-off thinking of those people as individuals. The manager has to protect his/her psyche somehow.
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"What worries me is how people on this board assume that it is so easy to cut headcount."
One way managers and execs make it easy to cut their workforce is by calling people "headcount". I have worked in a large corporation for 21 years and have noticed that in the past 5 years or so, organization charts no longer have names, they only have positions. Employees are no longer called "workers" or "team members" or any other humanizing name, they are called "assets" or "headcounts", which are non-humans or parts of humans.
I can't imagine a manager in a large company who is asked to fire multiples of people due to a massive lay-off thinking of those people as individuals. The manager has to protect his/her psyche somehow.