http://www.fastcompany.com/member_recent_content/98569 Member recent activity block for member profile page en http://www.fastcompany.com/comment/comment-node-ant-193 <p>How to retain younger workers? Stop using "downsizing" and layoffs as the only answer to monetary woes. Do you think that an employee should be loyal to a company when that company might not be loyal to them?</p> <p>Once upon a time, when a corporation had to lay off employees, it was a mark of failure, of shame, an embarrassment that you weren't running a tight ship. Nowadays, it's a quick and cheap way to meet the numbers for the quarter and up the stock price. Does this give us younger workers confidence? If you think so, you must have a Harvard MBA.</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/comment/comment-node-ant-193">read more</a></p> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:46:37 -0500 Alex Mitchell 701469 at http://www.fastcompany.com