Given how much work and communication about work is technologically enabled today there shouldn't be a higher risk of being treated as disposable, but despite working remote for many years for a larger corporation it did feel like I might have gone on the chopping block somewhat sooner when the recession hit. Though in the end it might not have mattered because the recently appointed president of the company took the recession as an opportunity to replace most of the founding leadership team of our business unit with people of his own choosing.
