Workers have greater job mobility in this modern world. They are not indentured servants. You'll see the positive side of this equation in L.G. businesses, whose owners often hold on to their best employees, by making small concessions that B.B.'s won't. B.B.'s usually cannot see further than the ends of their quarterly profit statement noses. This is management by myopia.
Good workers take time to train and motivate.
Building mutual trust and respect takes even longer. However, for the B.B.'s, in any conflict between commonsense employee management and doctoring the numbers, doctoring wins out. Solid, consistent long-term profits are the object of their exercise. Assets to be preserved through good times and bad, and only discarded as a last resort cost-cutting measure. Workers are smart enough to know this language for the psychologically manipulative b.s.