In my company I have totally lost count on the number of jobs that have been lost. A few years ago they called it "downsizing" about 25% - 35% percent of jobs were lost. Then a new group came in they started another round which they called R4G....Restructure for Growth. We called it a bloodbath. We used to have 2 campuses they outsourced and cut so many people they now all fit in one. Most all openings are frozen. It was fun though when the CEO went into an account and the customer complained about the service response. The CEO ask the service manager why he responded that 2 engineers had retired and one died a year ago and the positions were frozen.

My CEO and Wall Street think that we have to grow the business 10% each year. In a flat market you can't increase sales so what gets cut...staff, training and research and development. Outsourcing means losing control which have led to quality issues and we are in trouble.

Makes a lot of sense