June 03, 2010

Staff Reduction: How Do You Know When You've Gone Too Far?


"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Mortimer Caplin
Attorney


This sounds like something senior management might have said to employees they didn't lay off in the last year or so.

"Be happy you've still got a job. You can do more than you think."


To a degree that is so; there was fat in a lot of organizations, but at some point that is no longer true. Many cuts have been to the bone.


When it comes to staff reductions, how do you know when enough is actually too much?


1 comment :

  1. obviously, no simple answer to this. but generally speaking, one way to know that you've gone too far is if you're not meeting key customer expectations and you've been able to isolate that this is happening due to a lack of resources vs having the wrong resources.

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