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All employees should be kept as happy as possible anyway, shouldn't they? Why would anyone want unhappy employees?

The point is, it's not a trade-off between employees' job satisfaction and 'committing a crime'. These are not two sides of the same or even related issues. You don't keep employees happy because they might burn the place down if you don't and and someone's departure from a job is not a reason for them to commit a crime. Equating these things is silly.

> By that logic, all employees should be kept as happy as possible because they might commit arson.

If that's the only logic that successfully gets through to the boss, it's good logic.

Well in general, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. I can't help but notice that most of these companies that run into these sorts of issues also had some pretty bad stories on Glassdoor.

Not necessarily causality, but I'd say there's at least a correlation, and a good enough reason to make office life as bearable as possible.

I need to watch Office Space again...