In my experience a simple productivity killer is to make your employee's work environment behave like Carol's bedroom scene in Poltergeist
However in this case we are not talking about furniture in the cube farm, we are talking about the computing environment, the tools, the things you need from the local network to do your job.
If that environment is changing on a weekly basis, with new rules, locations, services, and whatever so that you have to relearn and reconfigure everything constantly, then how in Gaia's name are you going to get anything done? You will spend all your time fighting with the environment....or the so-called corporate Poltergeist.
Do you think that maybe, just maybe, you would get sick and tired?
So much that you might want to leave.....oh wait. And if this happen enough then the corporation doesn't have to pay severance because you left of your own volition.
So this is really a cheap way to lay off the employees you call "little people" without being forced to pay a severance: Make their world such a living hell that they make the move you wanted.
