[htss2013]

>An organization that wants people to come to work at their detriment is one that doesn't value their people, and this is how they are expressing it.

Yes this is the entire point. They want to turn up both voluntary attrition or be able to fire for cause. Either way they get to lighten their employee costs which is the goal.

[woleium]

The thing is, when you do it this way you loose the best and the brightest, which starts a downward spiral as those were the only ones who could hire good people.