> Company of 100 employees means that cutting that perk earned everyone an extra $25/year.

And when you cut other things, the savings add up since such cuts never come alone.

Spending tends to go uncontrolled when the company is in the green, and then multiple cuts come all at once when the company is in the red.

By my former place when sales crashed, they removed the color printers throughout the company(amongst many other things) and only kept the B/W ones and I thought that was stupid until they said it saved 22K/quarter which seemed insanely wasteful. So you see, it's never just 25$/year when the cuts come, it's always a lot more.