What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey.
Where to find us:
- Peter's other podcast, 5-4
- Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase
Sources:
- Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
- Downsizing in America
- Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
- The Disposable American
- Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78
- What was the New Economy?
- Boss, Employees Share Large Cheese Platter
- Tarpon's big cheese has aides reading
- Why doesn’t downsizing deliver?
- On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties
- Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006
- Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession
- Does Employee Downsizing Really Work?
- Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance
- Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market
- A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize
- Organizational Downsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning
- The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!