Does Netflix really have a ‘culture of fear’ problem?


(FILES) This file photo taken on January 22, 2014, shows the Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos, California. - Netflix chief financial officer David Wells on August 13, 2018, announced plans to hand his job off to a successor and then focus on philanthropy. (Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

LOS ANGELES: Netflix is a company whose unsentimental culture of firing underperforming employees has “unsettle[d] the ranks”, according to the Wall Street Journal’s lengthy, detailed piece published Oct 25. 

But as in-depth as it was, the Journal’s 4,500-word story lacked some context. Namely: How happy are Netflix employees in general compared with other companies? And, more to the point, is its approach to culling the staff – which Netflix has fully disclosed for years – a problem for the business? 

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