Tom DeMarco: “Take a deep breath and … reduce salaries. There is an unwritten law in companies that salaries can go up but can never go down. Repeal it. If you’re faced with a mandate to cut personnel costs by, say, 10%, you could do that by laying off 10% of staff. That way all of the pain is absorbed by 10% of the people while the others carry on as before. Alternately, you could trim everybody’s salary by 10%. The pain is evenly distributed. As a social matter, this makes good sense: discomfort for all instead of catastrophe for a few. But there’s a much more important reason to take this approach. You and your people take something out of your own hides, but nothing out of your customers’. A side effect of trimming salaries rather than staff is that when things pick up again, you’re in a much stronger position than your competitor who has to hire from a rapidly diminishing pool of resources.”
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(src: cutter.com)
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