[kodah]

> Irresponsible for who? Corporations are in the business of their own interests. Employees are a resource to furthering a businesses goals.

Personally, I find layoffs irresponsible at a corporate level. When they happen they disrupt team relationships, gut out tribal knowledge, break trust, and create friction that trades short term savings for long term cost. The human cost for unemployment is also hard to ignore. For every 1% increase in unemployment there is a 1-1.6% increase in suicides.

I say that as someone who is working at a company that made headlines for layoffs.