As employees feel stress about the impending axe, management feels stress about handling the environment for both those workers being laid off and those left behind.
It seems to be just a matter of time for a great idea to become stale and unfashionable, and then resurface at a later time as something new and improved.
Maxwell Smart was a man ahead of his time. Not only did the 1960s secret agent have a mobile phone, it was an integrated technology: part phone, part shoe.