Now we all know that its not mandatory for a company to provide medical or dental benefits. They are useful tools to maintain a happy and healthy workforce. They are useful to entice employees to join your workforce and retain existing employees.
Therefore, it would stand to reason that if you wanted to get rid of employees without paying a costly severance you would want to reduce or remove those things that keep them in your buildings. Benefits is one of those things that you can reduce to entice employee to leave. Think of it as constructive dismissal but on a large scale. Other than make their lives a living hell day by day, benefit reduction is a clear signal that employees are unimportant to you, and clutter the halls.
In fact, you can investigate what your employees use the most from benefits in previous years, and specifically reduce them. Lets say you have an aging workforce. It stands to reason that they need things like Chiropractic, massage therapy, and perhaps acupuncture to help their aches and pains and prevent larger issues. So you can decrease those, but, then to add insult to injury, you can increase something they don't use. To twist the knife, state to them that you are re-balancing the benefits package to better suite "most" employees. They will all know it a lie. But your little re-balancing line will be to laugh in their faces and say "fuck you".
They know they have little choice.
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