The employees were expensive software developers, electrical engineers, RF signal electrical engineers, and microelectronics design engineers. There probably was one person making minwage. She was a very sweet developmentally disabled girl who delivered the mail to our desks.
Similarly, we don't know the names of any of those executives. That means we don't know if we currently work for them. If we work for other executives, we shouldn't assume that we can generalize this story to our experience!
In fact, since the odds of this exact management team starting a new company in exactly the same industry with exactly the same business model are close to zero, I think we can agree that it would be impossible to learn anything from this story even if we DID know all the details.
Ok.. tell me about those employees. How much do they get paid? Minimum wage? What do they do? Do they even require a desk?
A week to setup a desk that the employee doesn't even need because they are required to travel constantly is not a problem.
You're taking this awfully personally
I'm not taking any of this personally. You're just sensitive because someone is suggesting that an IT dept might have required cuts.
Geez.. for people who are so scientifically-minded, you sure do seem eager to take everything in the article on faith.