[m348e912]

It depends, some companies have a history of yearly layoffs. Back when he was running GE, Jack Welch famously argued that leaders should fire the bottom 10 percent of their workforce each year, as part of an orderly continuous improvement process.

Is that the kind of work environment you want to be in?

[nness]

Wasn't that Amazon's policy? And Microsoft's for much of it's former history?