“The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 387

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