As 570,000 workers watched their jobs get culled this year, Torani CEO says ‘layoffs are a choice’—and that her company has never cut workers en masse
Source: Fortune ·
Melanie Dulbecco, the CEO of flavored syrup giant Torani, doesn’t buy the idea that laying off employees is always necessary.
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Workers are clinging to their jobs as they watch employers lay off staffers in droves. But unlike other leaders, Melanie Dulbecco, the CEO of flavored syrup giant Torani, doesn’t buy the idea that cutting employees is always necessary. “It’s very easy for us to say layoffs are not our approach. I think layoffs are a choice,” Dulbecco told Business Insider in a recent interview. “I get it if a company is going through bankruptcy and has to make extremely challenging choices. Otherwise, I think it’s a financial exercise that doesn’t consider how you’re going to be resilient or regain momentum—because you do that with a team.” The 101-year-old syrup maker has made preserving jobs a priority, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company relocated its office to a new location in San Leandro back in March 2020, with the express goal of retaining 100% of its workers in the process. Dulbecco told Fortune that the company even created a ZIP code map noting where its staffers lived, so that…