There’s no good way to eliminate thousands of jobs. But as the recent layoffs in tech and banking have shown, there are better and worse ways to go about it. That goes not just for the layoffs themselves, but also for what the company does around the same time.
Microsoft, for its part, took heat this week for hosting an exclusive party at Davos where attendees enjoyed a live performance by Sting on Tuesday evening, as the Wall Street Journal reported. It isn’t clear what the company paid the performer, but $500,000 would not be surprising.
