this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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Enough Musk Spam

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Employees create your sales. If there's redundancy in job tasks then firing people can increase profits, but massive layoffs is mainly just reducing output capabilities.

few people to do work = few profits

In the span of a year or two this can increase profits because costs have gone down, but pretty soon the company will run out of its backlog and then profits will tank in a way that can't be recovered from for years

[โ€“] dustyData 10 points 7 months ago

Every person you fire without leaving a replacement is a loss of information and institutional knowledge. Like lobotomizing a person. Layoffs kill a company's ability to perform. Tesla won't exist as it is know in 2 years. Unlike software, that can continue to exist in a zombie way with whatever was left written run by a skeleton crew. Production companies instead tend to implode.