The Wall Street Journal has just reviewed Spark, describing Lincoln Electric’s “unusual approach to managing its employees” as an “approach that is all the more striking today against the backdrop of the layoff mania that has claimed more than eight million American jobs since late 2007.”

The Journal’s review ends with former-Xilinx VP Peg Wynn ‘s lament that most CEO’s order layoffs because it’s just easier to do “what everybody else does.” Sad. Too true.