The phrase "a decrease in staff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in the number of employees within an organization or company.
Example: "Due to budget cuts, there will be a decrease in staff over the next quarter."
Alternatives: "a reduction in personnel" or "a drop in workforce".
These increased budgets could enable CIOs to expand their departments by bringing on new hires; 47% of Harvey Nash/KPMG survey respondents expected an increase in headcounts, and only 13% predicted a decrease in staff.
For practical relevance, hospital and nursing executives should consider strategizing fall and injurious fall prevention efforts by aiming for a decrease in staff response time to call lights.
Yet on a more positive note, the implementation of a new CCM in one study [ 41] was believed to be associated with a decrease in staff turnover.
This has implications in terms of quality of life for elderly LTC residents (fewer venipunctures), a decrease in staff time for both laboratory and LTC workers, and a decrease in costs associated with testing.
Mr Quayle continued: "We wouldn't be able to employ more staff at this stage, bearing in mind the nature of the financial challenges we face, so any staff increase in this particular area would have to come from a decrease in staffing in another area.
In some airports that were always space-constrained to begin with, the impact is enormous". A decrease in staffing at LAX and a space crunch in terminals has led to low morale among screeners and even prompted several part-time TSA employees who began work at LAX in the last few weeks to quit.
In contrast, 'most improved' facilities on average had a decrease in total staff time available for other services such as PITC, PNC, STI, and VCT (see Table 4).
That is a big ask for my officers with a current decrease in staff," he says.
The decrease in overall attendance rates has been accompanied by an overall decrease in staff numbers reflecting the hospital's policy of resourcing the ED according to the number of attendances rather than case mix and work load.
Moves of this kind may save £1,000 in direct costs but result in a decrease in productivity as staff feel taken for granted.
Secondly, rotation among health personnel is high so there is a decrease in skilled laboratory staff in many laboratories.
