The phrase "a drastic downsizing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a significant reduction in the size or scale of a business, organization, or workforce.
Example: "The company announced a drastic downsizing, affecting hundreds of employees across multiple departments."
Alternatives: "a significant reduction" or "a severe cutback."
Like most American newspapers, The Globe has already gone through a drastic downsizing.
G.M.'s bankruptcy petition culminates a remarkable four months of confrontation between Washington and Detroit that is expected to result in a drastic downsizing of the company.
But the Army's leaders, luxuriating in the triumph, and trying to weather a drastic downsizing, which reduced the force by nearly forty per cent in the nineteen-nineties, did neither.
Meanwhile, NASA faced a drastic downsizing on May 19 when Administrator Daniel Goldin announced a cut of 3,560 civil service jobs and up to 25,300 contractor jobs--30 jobs--30 jobs--30% wofkforce--by the year 2000.
At CBS in the late 1980's, Sir Howard (he was just Mr. Stringer back then) presided over a drastic downsizing of the broadcast industry's proudest news division, one that he had grown up in as a clerk, documentary maker and news producer.
The recession in North America, Europe and elsewhere pushed some automakers into the grave and others into consolidation or drastic downsizing.
An all-haredi computer unit in the air force enables Talmudic whizz-kids to show high-tech potential.For the yeshivas, some of which are lucrative family businesses, the reform would eventually mean drastic downsizing.
Eaton oversaw a tumultuous period in the history of the $746 million agency, when it went through drastic downsizing and reorganization while weathering threats from Congress to shut it down.
Michael Dimock of Pew Research adds that the drastic downsizing of statehouse news coverage means state lawmakers operate with less accountability.
Like their counterparts in markets like Chicago, San Diego, Seattle and the Twin Cities, the founders of the Bay Area news project say they want to fill some of the vacuum left by the drastic downsizing of the region's newspapers.
Still, some city officials were loath to accept that Wall Street's influence might be diminished by the disappearance or drastic downsizing of some of its most prominent firms, like Lehman.
