Surely top management could have cut their own pay (or everyone's pay) by a tiny amount to save an equivalent amount of money.
Perhaps so (again, I don't have access to their financial data so I can't say for sure) but I can imagine how I would feel if I was told I was getting a pay cut because Hyatt's in another city weren't profitable.
Laying people off may be 'defensible', but doing so in order to replace the laid-off people with lower-wage workers doing the same work?
I see. I can only assume you are similarly outraged about every company that has done this with either software developers or customer support people (or both). Pretty much every phone company and most computer companies (Apple being an exception) that I've dealt with have their first-line tech support in another country; I am guessing they laid off people here in order to do that.
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Date: 2009-09-17 06:28 pm (UTC)Perhaps so (again, I don't have access to their financial data so I can't say for sure) but I can imagine how I would feel if I was told I was getting a pay cut because Hyatt's in another city weren't profitable.
Laying people off may be 'defensible', but doing so in order to replace the laid-off people with lower-wage workers doing the same work?
I see. I can only assume you are similarly outraged about every company that has done this with either software developers or customer support people (or both). Pretty much every phone company and most computer companies (Apple being an exception) that I've dealt with have their first-line tech support in another country; I am guessing they laid off people here in order to do that.
Has this not been your experience?