Editing Shareholder value (section)

==== Layoff practices ====
The aforementioned status of workers faces criticism when looking at how this "reduced pension matching" loophole becomes manipulated. If laid off before the pre-pension matching period is complete, there is no compensation. Furthermore, mass layoffs have affected companies in the home headquarters with many jobs either going overseas or being hired out to [[Offshoring|contractors]] from similar positions to those that were laid off for lower benefits and protections as critics and experts have noted.<ref name=":5" /> According to economic experts and critics alike, the [[Layoff|downsize]]-and-distribute model invoked by SV theory extracts value and then further ingrains employee instability and greater income inequality.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|date=2020-09-13|title=Greed Is Good. Except When It's Bad.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/business/dealbook/milton-friedman-essay-anniversary.html|access-date=2020-12-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite magazine|last=Kolhatkar|first=Sheelah|title=The Economist Who Put Stock Buybacks in Washington's Crosshairs|url=https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-economist-who-put-stock-buybacks-in-washingtons-crosshairs|access-date=2020-12-19|magazine=The New Yorker|date=20 June 2019|language=en-us}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|date=2014-09-01|title=Profits Without Prosperity|work=Harvard Business Review|url=https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity|access-date=2020-12-19|issn=0017-8012}}</ref>