downsizing
B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The deliberate reduction of the number of employees to lower costs.
The downsizing programme was structured to qualify each departure as a genuine redundancy.
Business noun
The reduction of a workforce, usually to cut costs or streamline operations.
The downsizing removed two management layers and around three hundred posts.
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