I did read the entire article and blurb before I first replied, and I'm still convinced that it provides no real incentive for the workers.
While some workers do get some kind of severance package for doing the dirty deed, they're still going to be unemployed, and I never heard of any of severance package that completely compensates for actually employment. A good number of people, as pointed out in the article, are still unemployed after a year. As more and more info-tech jobs are outsourced, it'll be even harder to find the same kind of jobs again.
Retraining isn't even an option for some of these folks, as in Mr. Gentry's example, is pushing 51. By the time he re-enters the work force with new job training, he'll have barely a decade of employment left till companies start turning him away outright for 'over qualification'.
All in all, this is an outright pisser on everybody's morale in the companies. As far as I can see, this will only create employee outrage and probably some creative sabotage from the very people who will be on their out in a couple of months.
This is the kind of stupidity that created the phrase 'digging your own grave". No matter what, you're screwed. If you dig your grave, you'll openly acknowledge that you're going to die. If you don't dig your grave, what are they going to do? Kill you?
In both cases, there is no incentive to have the person do a damn thing.
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I did read the entire article and blurb before I first replied, and I'm still convinced that it provides no real incentive for the workers. While some workers do get some kind of severance package for doing the dirty deed, they're still going to be unemployed, and I never heard of any of severance package that completely compensates for actually employment. A good number of people, as pointed out in the article, are still unemployed after a year. As more and more info-tech jobs are outsourced, it'll be even harder to find the same kind of jobs again. Retraining isn't even an option for some of these folks, as in Mr. Gentry's example, is pushing 51. By the time he re-enters the work force with new job training, he'll have barely a decade of employment left till companies start turning him away outright for 'over qualification'. All in all, this is an outright pisser on everybody's morale in the companies. As far as I can see, this will only create employee outrage and probably some creative sabotage from the very people who will be on their out in a couple of months.
This is the kind of stupidity that created the phrase 'digging your own grave". No matter what, you're screwed. If you dig your grave, you'll openly acknowledge that you're going to die. If you don't dig your grave, what are they going to do? Kill you? In both cases, there is no incentive to have the person do a damn thing.
and release an offical DivX copy of it two weeks before hand on the internet for $1 a pop. 'Cause, you know, it's gonna happen anyways.