The Netflix layoffs reveal what corporate America is getting wrong

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Last week, Netflix eliminated roughly 1,000 jobs and replaced its chief content officer, Bela Bajaria, who had spent years helping transform the streaming service into a global entertainment powerhouse. Netflix said Bajaria was “leaving” after nearly a decade. She wasn’t departing to “spend more time with her family” or to “pursue other interests.” Whatever the circumstances of her departure, she was out. Donald Trump turned firing people into a catchphrase on The Apprentice. But somewhere along the way, corporate America seems to have turned that sentiment into a management philosophy. Her replacement, Peter Rice, knows the experience firsthand. In 2022, Rice was abruptly dismissed from his senior position at Disney by then-CEO Bob Chapek, reportedly catching himself and much of Hollywood by surprise. Only months later, Chapek himself was fired, learning of his own dismissal via a phone call at home hours before he was scheduled to introduce Elton John at a concert at Dodger Stadium…

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