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  Alexander - if anything bonuses are more important because the difficult economic environment. This is all to do with getting the bottom line up and creating more profit for the business. Better performance is needed more than ever from each member of staff who can influence the turnover/profit.
  
  Whether to lay people off is a matter for the directors of a business and many of the people who get these bonuses are not responsible for the cost base only generating revenue. The decision to lay people off for any business is never taken lightly and is a difficult one. Businesses always have to keep their structures and costs under review and it would be a very poorly managed company that did not do so and sometimes that does mean laying people off. It would be irresponsible to manage a business inefficiently and with higher costs than they need and it would place the whole long-term future of a business in jeopardy and of all the jobs it provides. Business do not lay people off just to get bonuses - in the short term can reduce the bottom line due to one-off costs.
  
  Managing a business is difficult and challenging. A wrong decision that shears just a fraction of a percentage point off turnover can turn a significant profit into a significant loss in a very short time.
  
  Armchair 'business managers' can be as far off track as some of the 'armchair generals' we see on TV and there are a lot of armchair business managers here on this forum who have never run a business in their lives and, from what I read, many would not even know where to start. This comment is not aimed at any specific individual.

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