1. Hire someone.
2. Pay them at top of scale
3. Give them 1 years salary upfront, cannot be claimed back. (Effectively one year rolling tenure)
4. Repeat for all employees
5. Loudly and clearly state the problems facing the business.
6. Stand back
I think the idea is that financially secure people are more willing to speak their mind. Getting salary upfront means everyone has small scale “fuck you” money. The problem here is that most people don’t actually have a reason to care about their employer’s problems, so not speaking up is often just a strategy of least resistance.
I was a part of that once. It was a complete trainwreck. Never again.