Let's take fictional Company A as an example. When a pandemic occurred, fear spread to the highest echelons. For years, management had been repurchasing shares to improve financial performance and guarantee bold bonuses. This reduced its financial freedom, which led the CEO and CFO to continue to reduce costs substantially, including the cancellation of all training and development activities. They also used the turbulent economic environment as an excuse to lay off, without any explanation, a number of employees whom they did not like. In the light of these events, an atmosphere of destruction prevailed ...
