#2 Re: Gordon’s Blog Post “Will RIM’s Blackberry 10 save the company?”
Sep 20th, 2012 by Maggie Huang
(Reply on Gordon’s blog post https://blogs.ubc.ca/gordonblog/)
According to Gordon Woo’s post which talks about business ethic, HP lays off great amount of employees. Laying off employees seems like the fastest and most direct way to cut the cost, but it brings many problems after. First of all, it shows that the company doesnt concern about the stuffs. This is a business ethic problem. Actually there are many ways of cutting cost, such as find new and cheaper resources. Second, the restructuring can create the insecurity among the employees. They are afraid of losing jobs. Under this situation, they can not concentrate to the work due to the negative working environment. The workers’ emotion directly affect their performance and the company’s profit. Most of the time it is not worth to reduce cost in this way. In my opinion, companies which lay off big amount of employees for cutting down the production fee is immoral and cold-blooded since the employees input their work and effort. Do you think of any better ways of cutting down the cost?