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If people are always "protected" how do you deal with low performing companies?

If Zoom becomes unusable because it is crashing all the time and everyone switches to another service where do you think the money is going to come from to pay these "protected" employees? Fire the CEO, sure, but where is the money coming from for the thousands of other employees?




> If people are always "protected" how do you deal with low performing companies?

mentor them? help them find a better position? change managers? lots of things you can do before firing... also i think the word "protection" the previous commenter means is 'protection from random/mass firings/layoffs without cause' not firing for being lazy/sabotage etc


> mentor them? help them find a better position? change managers?

None of those help if you just need less people on payroll.


Mentor a company?


i have to admit, i completely read that as "employee".... though i wonder if the op also meant that...?


Even in areas with good strong unions, there isn’t some kind of company wide protection. If the company doesn’t fit in the market, it goes away. I’m not weaving some fantasy tale, these systems exist in other countries that still have free markets and profitable companies.




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