You Dont Have to Drop Loyalty to One Company to Care About Physical Media
“Whatever loyalty you have to any one company, you're gonna have to be willing to drop if you care about physical media.”
Summary
Current data shows physical media like DVDs and Blu‑rays are experiencing a modest resurgence, yet they still represent a small share of overall sales, especially in gaming where only about 15% of PS5 software is bought physically. Discussions of employee or customer loyalty are unrelated to these trends and do not indicate that caring about physical media requires abandoning loyalty to any particular company.
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Firms should reward fairness and not fidelity to get the best out of their staff
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Loyalty should not be viewed as an either/or proposition. It's true, the experts say, that to produce their best work, employees must be loyal to the company and what it stands for.
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Loyalty is usually seen as a virtue, albeit a problematic one. It is constituted centrally by perseverance in an association to which a person has become intrinsically committed as a matter of his or her identity. Its paradigmatic expression is found in close friendship, to which loyalty is ...
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The relationship between employee and employer is changing, especially our understanding of commitment and loyalty. An ethical employee owes the company a good day’s work and his or her best effort, whether the work is stimulating or dull. A duty of loyalty and our best effort are our primary obligations as employees, but what they mean can change.
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I believe the usefulness of the data would be alot less biased if it was based on profits of physical vs digital media since then it would account for games at much smaller than full price other than number of games sold.
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