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The article takes for granted this bizarre assertion that these businesses NEEDED to layoff people this year.

They're all STAGGERINGLY profitable still and the lowered workforce costs will hardly make a dent in the accounting statement.

This is all you need to know about the silliness in this article.




But that’s the point. They needed the growth or, in this case, the profit impact of shifting employee money to shareholders




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