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Wayfair lays off 13% of its workforce weeks after telling employees to work harder (www.cnn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Wayfair lays off 13% of its workforce weeks after telling employees to work harder::Wayfair is laying off 1,650 employees, amounting to 13% of its global workforce, as the online home goods retailer struggled to rebound following its success amid pandemic lockdowns.

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[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm suggesting that the current leaders earn their pay through definable metrics. If the company is growing why are they shedding workers? It's an indication that management either over-hired before or is stupidly firing people now. Both are bad.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Terrible metrics are used by many companies which encourage short term profits over the long term health of the organization. I’ve seen managers make decisions to cut expenses which look good on a P&L in the short term but have terrible consequences for the organization that only become apparent two or three years later. Usually after the person who made the decision has collected their bonus and moved onto another organization.

The sad thing is those people are promoted or recruited over more stead fast leaders who can actually grow an organization because their metrics look good.

[+] sunbeam60@lemmy.one -8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I can 100% guarantee you that 99% of all C-suites are held to very definable metrics as a large part of their compensation.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why are you sucking so much CEO dick in this thread??

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Amazing. Coherrent argument.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Argument? It's a question. A very coherent* one.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You didn't answer the very simple questions I asked about growth.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah fair enough.

If the company is growing why are they shedding workers? I mean, I don’t know, but some avenues I can imagine are: Their growth is happening in areas that aren’t people-intensive, their profit margins are lower than their competitors, they don’t have the right people to meet their strategy, they hired in anticipation of some trends continuing and they don’t, etc etc. Or a combination of the above.

I’m not saying that their leadership is blameless. I’m only saying that from the data I have, their leadership isn’t automatically to blame either.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Leadership is always to blame if there are problems. That's what being a leader is.

Here's an easy way to tell who to blame: if their recent projects were a success, who would get the accolades?

The executive leadership team, most likely. No one would say "they don't automatically get credit". So they should get the blame when things go poorly.