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Wayfair CEO sends a harsh wake-up call to employees (www.thestreet.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The CEO recently informed employees that further blurring the line between work and life is the recipe for success and is pushing for staff to put in more overtime, according to an email Shah wrote to his employees, which was obtained by Business Insider last week.

“Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from,” he wrote in the email. “There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success. Hard work is an essential ingredient in any recipe for success.”

Shah informed staff that this is a change that will be pushed for in the “weeks and months to come,” citing that the most successful people he knows follow this work culture.

“Everyone deserves to have a great personal life – everyone manages that in their own way – ambitious people find ways to blend and balance the two. I think that is what we all should do,” he wrote.

He is also encouraging staff to be “aggressive, pragmatic, frugal, agile, customer oriented, and smart” and to be more careful with spending company money going forward.

“I would also encourage you to think of any company money you spend as your own. Would you spend money on that, would you spend that much money for that thing, does that price seem reasonable, and lastly – have you negotiated the price? Everything is negotiable and so if you haven't then you should start there,” he wrote.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He laid off 900 people last year as the company lost nearly 400 million dollars, selling cheap shit Chinese furniture.

Safe to say, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Despite what Wall Street thinks, layoffs are almost always the sign of a poorly run company, especially when they do it multiple years in a row, and really especially when they do it during good economic years.

Data from the last 40 years, when layoffs started becoming commonplace, show that companies who lay off in multiple years, especially at the end of the year, see two things happen: their stock price goes up, and they are out of business within 10 years after starting the practice.

These numbers are just averages, but play the odds if you invest in stocks: don't buy stocks of companies that lay people off, just as you wouldn't bet on an NFL team that fires its coach every other year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

sign of a poorly run company

I agree but can also be a sign of vulture capitalists stripping value out of a company to line their own pockets before the whole thing goes belly up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

“There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success. Hard work is an essential ingredient in any recipe for success.”

Says the corporate executive whose success is measured entirely by the hard work of others.