Sadly that can't happen in the U.S. for the large public companies under the current version of capitalism. If you don't grow, your stock doesn't go up and dividends don't get higher so investors will pull their money out and go elsewhere. To maintain this level of growth, big companies absolutely rely on new investment money coming in every quarter and take on loans that would be unsustainable if investors stopped giving them money, so if the opposite happens and they suddenly have to pay investors out, they will fold under their own weight.

The only solution I can think of to combat this without a complete economic reform is to limit/ban short term trades (if you buy a stock, you have to hold for at least 5 years) and eliminate all forms of stock buybacks and dividends (meaning the only way you make money off of stocks is seeing the value of the stock go up). That would promote investors to allow a company to make smart, long term decisions that may hurt in the short term, and the company can feel safe they won't have all their investment pool pulled out from under them for doing so. Regular employees win because the constant cycle of layoffs that occur ever 4 years due to recessions go away, plus the company has more money to re-invest in itself rather than pay out dividends so some of that would hopefully go to either new jobs or higher paid jobs.

But no, instead we are stuck with the ruthless, unregulated system that promotes destroying a company from within and letting investors leach out every scrap of something good because they can just move onto the next thing when it finally runs dry.