"""One employee expressed the feeling that they live in fear of being fired every day at an executive meeting. A vice president named Karen Barragan was said to have responded: “Good, because fear drives you.” """
isn't this normal (for contractors?)
i mean it is terrible (armies whose job is to kill people put a pot of effort into avoiding just such feelings)
I do wonder why businesses so easily follow this route.
maybe it's interesting here that, in the last couple of days on HN, we've seen several stories to the effect that long-term chronic stress is literally damaging people's brains.
given that, i wonder how a Netflix competitor might exploit the defects in this hiring/firing strategy.
Exactly my thoughts. In fact, from what I've seen companies where people lead "from the front", ie. by example, have much higher productivity and better retention of top performers than companies where the management goes around threatening people if they don't perform.
isn't this normal (for contractors?)
i mean it is terrible (armies whose job is to kill people put a pot of effort into avoiding just such feelings)
I do wonder why businesses so easily follow this route.