Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff::Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year.
Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff::Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year.
If a company makes a profit and they don’t spend it, they’re liable for corporation tax on it. It’s in their best interest to spend it on growing.
It’s just the more you spend, the more likely you are to hit diminishing returns. If you have shops in two towns, you can build another in a third town and make more money. Easy. If you already have enough shops to serve all the towns, building another might just take sales from your existing shops.
The corporations don’t like this so now it’s time to fire everybody and run a shit service with a skeleton crew instead, while jacking up the prices and hope your customers don’t notice they’re paying more for less.
That only became a thing recently with the ability to buyback stock preventing stock dilution, the low cost of buying and selling stock, and a shit bond market.
And if there isn’t a competitor on the horizon, why invest in R&D?