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So about half don’t regret?



About half don't currently regret it, but some of those may still regret it later when reality catches up with them. It takes time for a big organization to come to terms with making a huge misstep like that.


> however more than half (55%) of them are now admitted those redundancy decisions were wrong.

That's over half _admitting_. You can bet that the real figure is higher, because no-one really _wants_ to get up and say "as a CEO, I did an obviously stupid thing".

I'm actually a little surprised they get this high a level of admission of incompetence; when a company does something stupid, a fairly common response is to carefully pretend it didn't happen.




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