As for the rise in the ranks of the self-employed during the past decade or so, I suspect that was largely a response to downsizing on the part of corporations.
The downsizing, part of a broader plan to simplify the menu at the company's 13,000 restaurants in the United States, would slim the 7-ounce fries down to 6.2 ounces and bring the 42-ounce drink down a full 10 ounces.
After decades of collecting vintage western paperbacks, (published 1939-1960) I decided to downsize and part with the approximately 3,000 novels I'd acquired.
According to The New York Times, the downsizing is part of Credit Suisse's effort to cut costs by around $2.1 billion.
Management said the downsizing was part of a wider effort to adjust the plant's work flow; but employees saw it as a way to get back at them for a 43-day strike organised earlier in the year.
Even after letting go of about 750 workers last year as part of a downsizing, the plant employs roughly 3,100 people.
However, he said the downsizing was part of a cycle: large build-up, peace, downsizing, threats, and build-up again.
In New York, a Bank of America spokesman, Jeff Hershberger, said the downsizing was part of a drive to reduce exposure to emerging markets worldwide.
Don't look for Citi to drive any kind of rethinking of the consumer market in the United States; Mr. Pandit just wants to downsize that part of his business.
Dr Michael Dixon, who represents many of the 211 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that last week took control of £65bn of health spending, told the Guardian that hospitals would have to downsize as part of efforts to cut what he said was "an awful lot of fat" in the NHS budget and make healthcare more patient-friendly.
And oh yes, in the weeks leading up to the inauguration of Donald Trump, several of those intelligence outfits found themselves in a knock-down, drag-out barroom brawl with our new tweeter-in-chief (who has begun threatening to downsize parts of the IC) over the possible Russian hacking of an American election and his relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
