An aggrieved billionaire this week lamented that workers had grown lazy and "arrogant" during the coronavirus pandemic and that many of them needed to be made unemployed for the situation to improve.The Australian Financial Review reports that Tim Gurner, the founder and CEO of the Gurner Group, exp...
  • @SCB
    1•1 year ago

    This is not a “succession planning” the owners of the companies left and the workers were faced with a choice: loose their jobs or take the place of those who betrayed them

    Then having the skills to step in is literally “succession planning.”

    proving that workers can do the management job without problems

    This is just promoting from within but in dire circumstances.

    It was such a disaster that you are not able to explain it in a comment nor to find an external reference which may do that in your place

    My company was sued by investment stakeholders for misleading them as a result of the lost productivity, but to post which company it is would doxx me more than I am comfortable with. Fortunate 500 companies do not make these things public more than they are legally required to.

    As for me having a job today, my position was ended as part of a necessary restructure after the above scandal. I got a sweet severence though.

    The company was divested from the greater whole and was eventually bought again, about 3 weeks ago.

    if an equal amount of the operations workforce left

    A huge part of my job during COVID was retaining these employees.