[bastawhiz]

Paying employees 3-6 month severance to hire them back as a consultant is perhaps the worst possible business decision I can imagine a leader making.

[ZephyrBlu]

Perhaps in the short term it is, but in the long term I think you care about company culture more than spending the $$$.

[bastawhiz]

Why hire employees at all then? Just outsource everything.

[ZephyrBlu]

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm assuming that if they hire people as contractors they only do so until they've hired new people to fill the vacant positions.