Business Tactics + Strategy 101:
The Take-Over

- Get bought by a bigger company or any reasons to "merge"

- Have changes made which change the vibe without asking and make people uncomfortable

- Get Incremental changes over time so people don't rebel or make time for rebelling... or do in all in 1 to shock people into doing nothing / accepting everything in 1

- Accept more bureaucracy and less freedom (security excuses, safety etc) without debate.

- Make money the driving factor more than ever to force a harder mentality more than pleasant work environment

- Of course more focus on the above more than customer satisfaction

- Call things by different names / move goal posts

- Introduce incentives like a lottery advert "You could earn upto XXXX a month but only if your KPI is within these high gain stats and only if you kill yourself over-working!

- Increase targets monthly or yearly if it's too easy for people and make them unattainable if you want to avoid paying out incentives (while swallowing the work they did while trying for incentive). Make work like a low-chance carnival game or numerical matrix)

Voila - You have "success" in the art of bizness take over and place that cuts corners in exchange for more money than does hardly any good over time

On the positive
- your might just get bought out again (if so repeat the above process)
- or even go bankrupt / get cashed out after the usual <1-2years of existing)

Weely Weely Worth IT.