Passive Recruiting: Why People Don't Trust Corporate America

“You know things are really bad when someone like [former General Electric CEO Jack] Welch, wrapped as he is in a cocoon of wealth and privilege, sees clearly that America’s workforce is fed up with how they are being treated by our business community,” says John Hollon, editor of Workforce Management.

And one of the ways corporate America is mistreating workers is by focusing only on recruiting passive candidates. The logic goes like this:
Only poor performers are ever laid off.