Of course not.
But you mention causation. You have to treat your employees well if you want to be successful. It is necessary, but not sufficient.
But you mention causation. You have to treat your employees well if you want to be successful. It is necessary, but not sufficient.
Taking an extreme example, soldiers at war. Are they generally being treated well? I'm not sure they are, and I don't necessarily mean deliberately. I don't think generals want their soldiers to be killed, in general. It just happens that situations arise where there is struggle and soldiers get killed.
I remember complaints about CD Projekt Red (makers of Cyberpunk 2077) who had to ask for death marches despite of initial promises to ever do so. I don't think they liked doing that, but presumably the business situation made it necessary.
So instead they decided to crunch and deliver a buggy game with the result that other people were so disappointed that they didn’t buy it.
I don’t know which is the bigger group, but I wish they would have delayed it.
So the pressure to deliver sooner rather than later also directly benefited the employees financially, even if it negatively affected their time and work/life balance.