Downsizing, labor market volatility and the country's shift from an industrial economy to one based on service and knowledge have helped create what Ms. Galinsky described as a "rapid-fire" way of working.
The factory style of production Yé-yé music had utilized interested the group, who were interested in expanding the labor force involved in the production of pop music, a movement which they saw as in opposition to the rock and roll trend (begun by The Beatles) toward self-sufficiency and "downsizing" labor.
But those productivity boosts are largely one-off situations produced by downsizing the labor force, firing people, and outsourcing some of the jobs they do.
It is commonly thought that the public health sectors of many countries suffer from a surplus of workers who are not particularly productive; hence a focus in a number of countries on downsizing the labor force.
"With cooperation from labor -- and you will see that that is part of our plan -- I believe that we can continue, through early retirements and buyouts, to downsize the labor force without layoffs," Mr. Bloomberg said.
(Note to the House Republicans and Fox News: over the past three years, the government — federal, state, and local — has downsized its labor force by more than half a million employees).
The companies have work to be done, and as they downsize their labor, they need contract workers" to fulfill the tasks at hand.
Funny you should ask, because it turns out that there has been a flowering of musical creativity in recent years, inspired by issues like globalization, child labor, downsizing, safety in the work place and jobs heading south thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
It has become, accordingly, a ruthlessly spic-and-span euphemism for downsizing the domestic industrial workforce, for pricing labor according to its cheapest foreign equivalent.
In fact, Spain's car market recovery has been more evident at the production level, with Ford and other carmakers recently expanding their presence there because of lower labor costs, while closing or downsizing factories in European nations like Britain and Belgium.
"Even during the height of the 1990's boom, workers were expressing some anxiety about their jobs because of the rapid churning of the labor market, through things like downsizing.
