The phrase "a shrinking staff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a workforce that is decreasing in size, often due to layoffs, resignations, or budget cuts.
Example: "Due to the recent budget cuts, the company is facing challenges with a shrinking staff, which has affected productivity."
Alternatives: "a dwindling workforce" or "a reduced team".
The commission has had to limp along with out-of-date technology and a shrinking staff.
But some bungled strategies are said to be what resulted in the company's fall from investor focus and the cause of a shrinking staff.
We have to work to align the amount of work we're asking people to do with the number of people available to do that work, and cannot continue to just unload additional work on a shrinking staff pool.
Judge Steve White, who presides over Superior Court in Sacramento, the state capital, said a shrinking staff had already caused the number of service windows at family court to be reduced to 2 from 10, leading to waits of five to six hours.
For years, a steadily shrinking staff struggled to maintain the aging collection and to catalog the growing archive of Holocaust-related clippings culled by a group of volunteers, some of whom had themselves survived German death camps.
Or he may really be vulnerable, as his falling standing in a poll and shrinking staff suggest.
Unhappy about shrinking staff, a recently instated 10-percent pay cut and 12-hour shift requirements, they held a rally last weekend warning people downtown for the baseball game to "enter Detroit at your own risk".
The underground facilities have a limited number of beds, and shrinking staff numbers mean specialists must work at multiple hospitals to serve as many patients as possible.
It's been a bumpy road for Dave Morin's Path, as manic rumors over the last year have pegged the "private" social network at once as the subject of lagging growth, shrinking staff and potential acquisitions, while at the same time raising a mega $50 million round at a $500 million valuation.
In recent years, amid budget cuts and shrinking staff, maintaining the more than 1,900 parks has become an ever greater challenge.
Much of the decline in enforcement is because of shrinking staff and complex new rules enacted by Congress in the I.R.S. Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.
