• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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      10 months ago

      It will cost them in future earnings… Companies won’t want to work on their platform if these policies are still in place… and many will never want to work with them again since they’ve shown their hand.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
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        10 months ago

        That is what makes me think there’s something more to this.

        I think rival companies might groom CEOs that get hired by their competitors but whom, secretly, are paid by the rivals to destroy the companies from within.

        Perhaps I’m wrong but that’s the only explanation I’ve been able to come up with that makes any sense to me.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Oh, plenty of business “geniuses” make some pretty boneheaded moves, especially when they feel a need to try to produce huge growth after saturating a market, or if their business results somehow fall short of some need (either actually losing money, or some arbitrary self-imposed “goal” not being hit).

      Currently there’s an epidemic of businesses making some pretty dubious long term decisions for the sake of trying to prop up numbers amidst a receding market reality. Recessions are, in part, a self-fulfilling prophecy, where whatever impetus exists, it’s exacerbated by every participant screwing things up further.