Who should stay

Companies deciding who should stay and who should go, there is the danger of accidentally removing the very thing that made the company's brand and product/service attractive to customers in the first place.
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The Importance of People At Work
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With companies deciding who should stay and who should go, there is the danger of accidentally removing the very thing that made the company's brand and product/service attractive to customers in the first place. Often times, a company is propelled forward by the force of people's personalities and the social bonds that are formed at work. It's a team of people with a common purpose instead of a collection of employees with set responsibilities. People organize around a goal in a way that employees do not.

Witness this bit at Valleywag about the firing of a key designer at Yahoo!'s Flikr

Remove a key player, and the social bonds that keep their friends on the job weaken. Before you know it, you've got a group of employees collecting paychecks, not a team working for a goal. Bugs go unfixed; servers crash; the design becomes ugly; and users flee. This could well happen to Flickr. Back up your photos now!

If that happens, what it tells us is that the culture of Flickr was always illusory — one built on personal ties rather than more lasting devotion to a cause. If so, the notion of exporting it to Yahoo was a delusion. That's the problem with turning a community into a commodity: Take away the people, and you have nothing left.

Indeed. Take away the people and all you have left are employees. You won't be able to find anything wrong with the employees. They will do their jobs just fine. And slowly things will just sort of...fall...apart.