Beyond Airline Disruptions: Furloughs and Layoffs

Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Furloughs and Layoffs - the Southwest Airlines Way

Gary Kelly, chairman and CEO of Southwest Airlines Co., outlined steps Monday the company plans to take in attempt to prevent furloughs and layoffs through 2021.

Includes: 'Effective immediately, Kelly's salary is reduced to $0. It will be that way through the end of 2021.'

Any such example around the industry?

Read more about the essence of Southwest Airline culture:

https://beyonddisruptions.blogspot.com/2020/08/what-can-be-learned-from-sustainable.html

My Favourite Quotes:

'The order is established not according to a pattern, but when there is complete understanding of what disorder is.' Krishnamurti

'Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.' Albert Einstein

‘In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks ’Wilbur Wright

‘If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes

'Anyone who is not given information cannot assume responsibility. But anyone who is given information cannot avoid assuming it.' Jan Carlzon

'Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.' Goethe

'Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.' Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Disruptions are like music out of tune. People can listen to it, but not for long.