Sentence examples for downsized working from inspiring English sources

Mr Meyerson argues that passengers' collective decision to prioritise bargains over comfort is a reflection of the decline of the first-world middle class i.e., Spirit succeeds because it is "an airline that the downsized working class can afford".

Due to our current employment rate and downsized companies, working this 85% is never more important than when networking.

A big surge in joblessness does not necessarily show up in the poverty statistics, because many of those downsized are men with working wives.

It might seem obvious and sensible to delegate as much work as you can to others, but if you are working in a downsized, delayered organisation, there may not be many people to delegate the work to.

Recently, I got downsized at work, and then I had to listen to my so-called friends give me their "rational" assessments of the situation — the crap about my failure to meet quarterly departmental goals, my responsibility for the mold-spore contamination in the office refrigerator, the unfortunate incident with the color copier.

Budke also says that while the Anchor team has been substantially downsized (only about 2 people are currently working full time as Anchors), this was a result of gradual attrition, not because of budget cuts.

"It's fair to ask whether contemporary working moms, whose companies have been radically downsized and whose bosses may well expect them to be fused to their BlackBerries 24/7, are quite as serene as their Clinton-era counterparts," she wrote.

Zambrowicz of Lexicon Genetics says, "Much of the biotech industry is not focused on working in target discovery and validation mainly because it has been downsized, even at biotech".

The last two recessions — in the early '90s and in 2001 — produced mass white-collar layoffs, and while the current one has seen plenty of downsized real-estate agents and financial analysts, the brunt is being borne by the blue-collar working class, which has been sliding downward since deindustrialization began in the '80s.

While working there over the course of five years, I met many clients whose lives had been downsized to a pill, a crack pipe or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

And as some new-economy companies have downsized or shut down, many of their former workers have found themselves shackled to agreements that prohibit them from working in their chosen fields.