Movies every business person should watch #14 Up in the air

• May 9, 2020
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In every crisis there are those who derive opportunity and just like during this period of lockdown, a number of employers are either downsizing or laying off the entire workforce and this movie brings out the subtle display of outsourced skills by George Clooney in making a job lay-off appear like an opening of a new chapter in the employee’s life which could actually be better for the affected employees.
Whenever employers were struggling an they have to lay-off staff, there was always an HR Firm to outsource this role to. This work required a lot of air travel and George uses this opportunity to accumulate ten million miles for himself; however, his personal goals are interrupted by an idea from a young recruit into his firm Anna Kendrick who introduces this idea of cutting costs by replacing air travel by video conferencing an idea George fights to his victory by using a number of scenarios as well Anna’s personal experience of getting damped through a text message