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Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance.

This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have promising products shipping in the near future.

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> This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance.

Unlike with severance, your best employees leave first

They don't care. Everyone is replaceable.

Companies don’t have the concept of good and bad employees, except when it comes to layoffs. Certainly no rewards for doing well verses just shuffling along.

In this scenario the highest achieving employees will be the ones that will quit first, as they will be in the most demand and therefore have the most options.

Yeah, I keep having this discussion with random leaders and the general impression is 'if you don't like it, leave' vibe. The companies and their leadership clearly feel emboldened by the recession prospects ( I already heard 'great layoff' term ). I am annoyed by this, but a lot will depend on whether people call their bluff. So far.. all the RTO plans failed, but a lot is going to happen between now and June.

Yes. You also reduce your chance of shipping successful products

This is Blizzard, they haven't released a decent game since 2010. Just half-baked expansions, failed attempts into other genres, and Netease partnership garbage.

Since 2010?

Dragonflight, Legacy of the Void, Overwatch, Wow Classic are all well loved games. Maybe you personally didn't like them, but objectively pass the bar of "decent"

Only overwatch's managed to become something, and it's getting its lunch eaten by Valorant. the rest are all rehashed content of old, deprecating existing IPs

Overwatch was 2016 and it was fantastic.

Whereas you can see the sheer quality drop with overwatch 2. Looks like a pre alpha release.

Overwatch 2?

Oh, you mean Overwatch 1, with the patches and balances changes we neglected to do for the intervening 4 years!

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