Some would say that the company is healthy due to big profits but that is primarily an investor perspective, not an employee perspective. As an employee you need to ask:
- "What is the company resorting to in order to make those profits?
- "Are those profits coming from natural growth within the company or is the organization using other tactics to beef up the numbers?"
- "Are benefits being reduced?"
- "Are the goals and metrics reasonable or are they starting to look impossible?"
- "Are our teams growing or shrinking?"
- "What about the positions that were vacated by previous employees by leaving or RIF... are those positions getting filled or are the remaining people simply expected to pick up the extra slack?"
- "What is the trend for locations? Are more sites popping up or are there just more closings in your general area?"
This isn't a secret anymore. Wall Street calls the shots now and investors want the best return on their investment. This mentality affects the entire organization, not just parts of it.
Patriotism is not a factor to these people.
To get the best bang for their buck they want labor and production shifted to the cheapest countries possible. To make this happen they just squeeze and squeeze employees until they can't take it anymore and are forced to leave. The work thats left just gets dumped on everyone else until the site closes and a new site overseas takes its place.
Is the company healthy? Not if your are the employee getting squeezed and sacrificed in order to make those huge profits...