RadioShack's Latest Move: A New Low

With the recent news that Radio Shack notified 400 employees via e-mail that their jobs were being eliminated, it seems that corporate America has reached a new low in terms of employee relations.

Meanwhile, the company's stock went up. Go figure.

Planned job cuts, firings, call it what you will, it's just a lack of human decency and an affront to good leadership to handle it in the way that they did. It's one thing to make a company decision to have a reduction in force, but quite another to blatantly show a lack of respect for human beings, treating them like cattle (apologies to animal-rights activists).

Compare that to the stellar human relations of organizations like Starbucks. RadioShack should be ashamed of themselves.

Leadership gurus from Tom Peters to Bud Bilanich are having a field day with this one.

RadioShack uses e-mail to fire 400 employees as part of planned job cuts ajc.com