I'm not sure if the question is if they're unreasonable people. I think it's more where they want to take the publication:
“vertically integrated digital-media company”
and
“We also have to do videos. We also have to do interactive graphics. We also have to be increasingly smarter ... about how we use social media.”
That's completely at odds with what the publication was, and with the reasons long term staffers worked for it. If I was working for a digital media company and it suddenly wanted to be a print only magazine, I'd look for work at another digital media company.
Or, if I'm a die hard low level C++ coder with a deep understanding of the language working at the same company for 20 years, and now suddenly that company wants me to write html templates and javascript glue code for web framework x.
> Just about the only useful takeaway from this article is: don't try to manage a politically sensitive situation by video conference.
More like don't expect your staff to stick around if you shift your company into something that they hold disdain for, have not much experience in and have no desire to have experience in.
A bunch of people leaving at once looks similar to groupthink, but in this case I think it's only correlation, not causation.
“vertically integrated digital-media company”
and
“We also have to do videos. We also have to do interactive graphics. We also have to be increasingly smarter ... about how we use social media.”
That's completely at odds with what the publication was, and with the reasons long term staffers worked for it. If I was working for a digital media company and it suddenly wanted to be a print only magazine, I'd look for work at another digital media company.
Or, if I'm a die hard low level C++ coder with a deep understanding of the language working at the same company for 20 years, and now suddenly that company wants me to write html templates and javascript glue code for web framework x.
> Just about the only useful takeaway from this article is: don't try to manage a politically sensitive situation by video conference.
More like don't expect your staff to stick around if you shift your company into something that they hold disdain for, have not much experience in and have no desire to have experience in.
A bunch of people leaving at once looks similar to groupthink, but in this case I think it's only correlation, not causation.