[ajkjk]

I wonder if, despite not being a benefit, they avoid a worse outcome at the same time? perhaps the evidence can distinguish those, not sure. It seems like if "not a benefit" means "the stock or performance or profitability didn't go up"... well, I think stock prices are a very trailing indicator of the health the company, since executives are incentivized to pamper over anything bad about it. So the layoffs may reflect the fact that "things have been bad for a while" and thus the metrics staying flat would imply that they would have gone down if they _hadn't_ done it.