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The goal of the CEO of a publicly traded company is to make the shareholders money. As much money as possible. If laying people off is the best way to do that, they'll do it.

Ok. By hiring too many people in the last couple of years and therefore now needing to incur the expenses and reputation hits of layoffs, those CEOs screwed up and fell short of their goals, right? So maybe they aren’t the best people for those jobs?




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