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The same thing happens in reverse quite frequently. Tandy/Radio Shack comes to mind as a particularly nasty episode (gear received the day before they closed for warranty claims just disappeared because they didn't tell customers they were going to close). Ford had some factories close in different EU locations and many other examples besides, usually for reasons of tax venue shopping.

Large companies don't care about employees one way or another, if you're lucky you're a row in a spreadsheet somewhere and woe to you if your row, the column where you're totalled or the entire sheet ends up in the red.

LEGO Group had significant financial hardships 20, 25 years ago. It’s been mostly well documented that they made many different changes in strategy and operations, and have become wildly successful.

LEGO was suffering financial hardships at the time due to plummeting sales.

They had no way of knowing Bionicle was going to save the company.

Was it FIRST Lego League?