Unfortunately Bond seems like a zombie franchise now that the creators don’t know is dead. They’ve been afraid of campy gadgets since Austin Powers. They haven’t had great villains since the fall of the Soviet Union. Plots have always been a bit wild, but the writing has been particularly egregious recently. The franchise has a lot of sexism baggage that’s less and less acceptable in the modern era.

Every place I worked there were employees that I’m not sure how they had a job. Those people aren’t being contacted by recruiters, and they aren’t leaving voluntarily. Layoffs are a companies chance to remove some of these people.

The problem with the hard pull is that the employees that had options left. Those are generally the better employees.

It’s a balancing act though. A lot of top talent is going to leave either way, so over focusing on them hurts everyone else. Mandatory return to office was a lot more costly than most companies hoped for though. It was essentially a lay-off, but it left companies with pretty much only the bad employees compared to a more traditional approach.