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I wonder if employees across the board are silently reciprocating the lack of support from businesses by doing subpar work, given that corporations have started to run down employees in the name of expanding profits.

It feels like a new phenomenon , and it feels very wide spread.

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So basically "I don't like the company so I'll not do my job and if people die they die"?

Wait til you hear about hospitals

Or cost cutting of essential services

Actually , no. More like the environment is so toxic people are just rushed and forced to do what they can do instead of what they should. Too much work demanded to be done in too little time so naturally the work is poor. People have families to feed so they try their best, but are ultimately overwhelmed.

Good people leave because it is toxic and stressful. The people that stay are miserable and do what they can. People may complain to management that it is not possible but everything is swept under the rug.

Work may get outsourced to other countries where there a language barriers or no way to hold the firm accountable. However, the firm promises everything at half the price, and will refuse to deliver bad news. All the ceo sees is that the profits are up.

It is a consequence of demanding growth over people. Since it takes years for the negatives to manifest itself the causes listed above are obfuscated. People that have only worked behind a desk but never in a warehouse are probably wondering what went wrong.

Either that, or tired, stressed, overworked, understaffed employees just naturally do worse work.

That’s a better way to look at it. I wonder what the average tenure of people at Boeing / maintenance techs is.

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