Sentence examples for brutal layoff from inspiring English sources

A former publishing and direct marketing executive, Kathy reinvented herself after a brutal layoff in the days following 9/11, receiving training as a therapist and coach, and conducting national research on women's career challenges.

The markets have been brutal, layoffs continue, and the scandals have heightened investors' skepticism.

This film is inspired by the 2008 meltdown, and set in a fictional, embattled trading firm carrying out brutal layoffs.

Sometimes it takes brutal layoffs and ideological shifts to get a startup back on track.

At a time when the district had been through years of drastic budget cuts and brutal teacher layoffs, Apple charged L.A. more per device than other districts had paid.

Layoffs are a brutal reality of corporate America.

The process was brutal and involved streamlining and layoffs.

I am not mentioning the austerity plans, the massive series of layoffs, the fairly brutal measures that will automatically follow.

In January 2008, Macy's fired longtime window dresser Amy Meadows, the woman responsible for decorating 25 years worth of State Street holiday windows and Walnut Room Great Trees, as part of a particularly brutal wave of cost-cutting layoffs at the retailer's Chicagoland stores.

It begins with a layoff, all the more brutal for its brisk efficiency: a senior employee in risk management is called into the fishbowl of a glass-walled office and calmly told that, after 19 years, his services are no longer required.

This has been a brutal month or so for tech layoffs.