{"id":2757,"date":"2020-12-17T14:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=140541"},"modified":"2020-12-17T14:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:50:41","slug":"sick-most-profitable-us-companies-fired-workers-enriched-shareholders-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/17\/sick-most-profitable-us-companies-fired-workers-enriched-shareholders-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sick&#8217;: Most Profitable US Companies Fired Workers, Enriched Shareholders During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Kenny Stancil, staff writer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>&#8220;This is a global crisis but the big companies are not treating it as one\u2014they haven&#8217;t skipped a beat.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/headline\/thumbs\/marc_benioff.jpg?itok=JqR2xonz\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (L), a signatory to the Business Roundtable&#039;s 2019 statement on corporate purpose and a proponent of so-called &quot;stakeholder capitalism,&quot; continued to prioritize the interests of shareholders in 2020\u2014laying off 1,000 workers despite a 28% increase in revenue compared to last year\u2014even after vowing not to do so during the pandemic&#039;s early stages. (Photo: Steve Jennings\/Getty Images for TechCrunch)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/17\/sick-most-profitable-us-companies-fired-workers-enriched-shareholders-during-pandemic\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Stancil, staff writer<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a global crisis but the big companies are not treating it as one\u2014they haven&#8217;t skipped a beat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}