I got to witness the decline of Xerox low volume printer/copier repair division in canada : They used to have really happy old guys who kept getting more and more vacation time as they worked their for years. They did really cool things like custom software running on internet explorer (teehee) to share repair tips globally, and they payed bonuses to encourage employees to share.

Then decided to switch to cheap disposable contractors (lucky me) They went full disgusting corpo bullshit: 16.50 an hour, no company vehicle, illegal third party payment middleman and misclassifying you as a "contractor" instead of employee while still controlling every aspect of your day. Of course the meetings were about how profitable they are.