In the long meantime, they rent, moving into better housing after a pay rise, or moving the opposite way after retrenchment or during contract gaps.
An Australian mental health foundation, beyondblue, has established a resource entitled "Taking Care of Yourself After Retrenchment or Financial Loss" for use in such circumstances by employers and others (available at http://www.beyondblue.org.au).au
After years of retrenchment after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster and then the oil price crash, he vowed to boost production and cashflow with a string of big projects.
Damien Knight, a principal at MM&K, a London-based pay consulting firm, said firms were struggling to get the best talent after a retrenchment, pushing up rewards.
With the move, Mitsubishi UFJ, the biggest Japanese bank, is stepping into a void left after major retrenchment in Japan and elsewhere by global investment banks, including Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.
Periods of innovation have invariably been followed by back-to-basics retrenchment (after Sputnik in the 1950's, and after the "Nation at Risk" report in the 1980's, for example).
After an underlying retrenchment of about 4%, Portugal is nearly half way towards reaching that objective.
Her album "4" is a savvy retrenchment after "I Am... Sasha Fierce".
This was partly because the banks' rapid retrenchment after 2008 created unmet demand for loans.
Baltimore's retrenchment, after a dizzying decline this year, comes amid a number of recent cutbacks by technology companies in Ireland.
After decades of retrenchment, it is hard to remember the burst of fresh ideas that accompanied the council, which took place from 1962 to 1965, and the years immediately following.
