I didn’t mention it initially but I also heard was that by doing it on Wednesday, they may be avoiding letting a significant proportion of the employees get their stock vests.
But yeah, it’s not smart, and I assume they just don’t care about productivity hits and hidden costs, if the superficial cost metrics are better.
Yeah, there are a lot of potential business purposes for it falling on a Wednesday, it’s really just that I can’t imagine 4 am working as well or better than basically any other time of day for this.
Although laying a tenth of your staff off immediately before some of their benefits vest is also bound to disgruntle employees, so maybe it’s just hubris.
I didn’t mention it initially but I also heard was that by doing it on Wednesday, they may be avoiding letting a significant proportion of the employees get their stock vests.
But yeah, it’s not smart, and I assume they just don’t care about productivity hits and hidden costs, if the superficial cost metrics are better.
Yeah, there are a lot of potential business purposes for it falling on a Wednesday, it’s really just that I can’t imagine 4 am working as well or better than basically any other time of day for this.
Although laying a tenth of your staff off immediately before some of their benefits vest is also bound to disgruntle employees, so maybe it’s just hubris.