not on your nellie; if it's easier to boost short-term profits by laying off your staff, well just keep doing it until you have no staff left (excluding senior management, of course!) and when you run out of staff, hire some Indian contract workers to "service" your customers, and then everything's peachy for the next couple of years while you sell your shares before they crash, then you b*gger off to another top job and ruin another company and call it "success."