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'Stop calling your company a family'

When the CEO of a Sydney-based digital media agency shared a note on LinkedIn on stating why employees must avoid calling their company their “family", it sparked a debate with some people agreeing wholeheartedly with it while others claimed that their employers supported them even when their families didn't.

“Stop calling your company ‘a family’. Parents don’t fire their children for poor performance, or lay them off to cut household costs when they’re struggling to put food on the table.”