The Cost of Leverage

The companies felt abused. The employee thought they had leverage and but it turns out to be fake leverage. This is not Amazon saying we're laying off, this is censure. These are highly educated white collar workers in finance accounting and professional consulting. All those years of social capital you had with a company when you left, you lost it. What does a mercenary do? A mercenary shows up for the temporary war and then goes off somewhere else. It's paid soldiers. They're paid soldiers.