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survivor syndrome

noun

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The guilt, anxiety, and disengagement felt by the employees who remain after rounds of layoffs.

Six weeks after the cuts, survivor syndrome had the remaining team demoralised and quietly polishing their resumes.

Similar: layoff survivor sickness

Topic: Human resources in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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