Did COVID maybe create a Roman Colosseum / Fight Club context in white-collar work?
Cost-cutting is normative in white-collar. Loyalty is spoken of, but largely dead. And COVID has created confusion. Are we all brawling now?
Well, let's think about this and follow a bouncing ball, shall we?
Step (1): Many companies are still run by cost-cutters.
Step (2): Even though we talk of "loyalty" in speeches and all-hands meetings, it does not exist in many companies.
Step (3): "Layoffs keep coming."
Step (4): Realize that Step (3) happened because of the intersection of Step (1) and (2…
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