What if they give us work and nobody came?

Work.

What is work? Exchange of some benefits - a service, in many forms to other side, and then exchanging of goods as return. Commonly a money given for gaining some activity.

Times have been tough for some companies due industry revolutions, global competition, which means that company may face a new competitor that he did not even know existed before. The increased competition creates a bit more complex environmnet, this together of feeling of security creates a loop where managers try to do cost cutting and gain more control whereas the opposite would be the right approach.

This means that on many places it is very short sighted management, and not creating an environment where people could thrive and as an outcome make company to succeed. And due increased competition, it may be that managers look that employees should be happpy they have work. After all there are constant layoffs, beware that you would not be among them.

In some industries there is a market of employees, meaning that employer is in need of an employee. Some managers do not understand that. Also people talk about places, meaning that if there is toxic culture, it will be known among the people who think if they should be employed by you.

And that, dear employers, will mean that nobody will come.