Scripting News: AOL is doing layoffs the wrong way
And you don’t want to do what AOL is doing. Week after week cutting off limbs. So that everyone inside the company is thinking they’re next. So the smart ones look for new jobs in earnest. By the time you get around to looking for the next place to cut, all you’ll find are the ones who didn’t get offers elsewhere. You just lost.
No kidding. Everything that AOL touches these days seems to end up heading in a downward spiral with writers fleeing from their posts or being laid off. The Engadget debacle was just one example of AOL’s heavy-handed kiss of death. These days, AOL seems to represent what is wrong with the web.