My business partners and I lost our manufacturing facility in the chemical plant explosion, and insurance is covering the physical rebuilding but not the income we lost during shutdown, so we're arguing about whether to take on debt to pay our employees or lay people off temporarily. Each of us feels responsible to our workers but we're defining responsibility differently and the financial pressure is making us all more rigid in our positions.
More people experience this than they realize.
Competing definitions of fiduciary responsibility to workers versus business survival are creating moral conflict around practical decisions under financial pressure.
“Where Are You with Financial recovery after disaster?”
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