Height of corporate indecency: A CEO firing 900 of his employees over a zoom call
Why can’t corporate higher ups treat fellow humans humane?
“We are one family” is a familiar phrase dished out to employees at good times by almost all corporate companies. But when times change , their true colors are revealed often to the surprise of their dedicated employees who believed all their lies all the while and it would have been too late to realize that it was a mere eye wash or lip service by their employer. Recently a CEO of a corporate company fired 900 of his employees over a zoom call citing their sub optimal performance as one of the reasons for their termination. But poor performance of an employee is never a bolt out a clear sky but it happens over a while which can improved by review meetings or prior warnings. Thus the reason cited by the CEO is totally farce.
Actually speaking retrenchment of employees is never a new thing as it has always been happening during economic downturns which is very much understood. Also, employees are also cognizant of the market situation and performance of the company when it happens as they know that the company which they are working is a sinking ship. So they accept the action of the company gracefully as one sinking person cannot save another person from sinking. But when a company is doing fine and employees are fired over a zoom call by the CEO, then that is quite…