Thought for the day.

• Position: Huntsman Corp. CEO Peter Huntsman's opinion about layoffs - Brief Article

"Industry needs to think about how it treats people. How is it that a CEO can wake up one morning and say, `We're going to lay off people?'

"How is it that you figure out that all of a sudden you have 5,000 more people than you need and destroy the lives of those 5,000 people?

"We should improve relations with our unions and make work places more stable.

"People are our most valued assets. We shouldn't be laying them off; we should incentivize them to create value. Labor remains a small part of our overall costs."

From a speech...