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One of the common approaches to dealing with this recession is for companies to ask — well, tell — employees to take time off without pay, a day every week or two. This 10 or 20% haircut is supposed to indicate that "we're all in this together," and that it's better for everyone to suffer a little than to lay some people off. While I have some sympathies with this philosophy, I'm not sure it's either fair or wise.