Staff Reduction Quotes

Al Davis fires everybody.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.

I have gone through some bad times with my own business. At one point, I was working my socks off, driving, delivering, baking. It was hard, hard work. But I worked through it. Running your own bakery is hard. I never came close to bankruptcy, but I had to cut back on staff.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world.

We were cowards when we sacked him.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

What I'm going to do is I will eliminate everyone in the comms team, and we'll start over.

I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.

We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.

I believe our schools will actually get better if layoffs are done carefully, such that only the very worst teachers are let go.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.