[silverkiwi]

Deciding to layoff or not is a complex decision. Here the article only looks at Companies that did layoff. Although more difficult, would be interesting to also look at companies that also made this decision and decided not to layoff. Essentially widening the group of Companies evaluated to one step before the layoffs/no layoffs decision is made.

[tyingq]

Or to look at companies that were more conversative about ramping up, used natural attrition more effectively to avoid the need for layoffs, used early retirement or separation incentives before layoffs, etc. Of course, that's difficult to research since it's not as newsworthy to do the right thing :)

[lock-the-spock]

Is there really such a thing as to non-decide? This seems to me a pretty impossible study to do.