Comments on: Time Inc. Expected To Shed 250 Jobs Today; Shutters Cottage Living Mag http://paidcontent.org/2008/11/19/419-time-inc-to-shed-250-jobs-today-shutters-cottage-living-mag-report/ The economics of digital content Wed, 22 May 2013 03:46:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Staci D. Kramer http://paidcontent.org/2008/11/19/419-time-inc-to-shed-250-jobs-today-shutters-cottage-living-mag-report/#comment-64883 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:54:42 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/11/19/419-time-inc-to-shed-250-jobs-today-shutters-cottage-living-mag-report/#comment-64883 Some of it has to do with Guild agreements that give employees at certain publications the chance to opt in before involuntary layoffs take place. In that respect, at least some people get more of a choice. I've seen the difference first hand and that feeling of having some modicum of control over your fate can be very important.

One other point — people are getting additional weeks of pay that they wouldn't if all the cuts had been made the day they were announced. Some may find that those extra weeks come in handy.

]]> By: John C. Smith http://paidcontent.org/2008/11/19/419-time-inc-to-shed-250-jobs-today-shutters-cottage-living-mag-report/#comment-64882 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:08:15 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/11/19/419-time-inc-to-shed-250-jobs-today-shutters-cottage-living-mag-report/#comment-64882 It *is* pretty deeply incompetent to make these layoffs such a slow bleed.

Can anyone make an argument for Time Inc's stretching it out like this?

If not WTF?

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