[rogerkirkness]

It makes no sense to do broad layoffs during sweeping technical change that affects you, your customers and your competitors all at once. Makes way more sense to cling to your best people and re-train them in order to preserve your soul and institutional knowledge. I think deep layoffs + regret as opposed to re-training is actually uniquely American culturally and not a thing elsewhere.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

As an American looking in the mirror, it seems that it’s true and one of the things that bothers me the most about our corporate work cultures.