Why? Musk said that the intent is to reduce costs by removing people serving in duplicate roles or in positions that no longer make sense for the company.
The problem facing Woodson is that the two things Stoudemire does — scoring out of isolations around the elbow and finishing powerfully as the dive man in pick-and-rolls — duplicate roles filled by the Knicks' current frontcourt stars.
If you don't, you will wind up with duplicate roles in competing orgs, and customers getting spammed because multiple employees have duplicate marketing mandates.
There will be job cuts, based on eliminating duplicate roles, but Avast is not confirming how many or where they will come at this stage.
Organization efficiencies are also expected as a result of the acquisition, so presumably there will be some staff reductions owing to duplicate roles.
Yesterday Re/Code suggested up to 1,000 jobs will be cut across the combined company, as duplicate roles in departments such as finance, HR, marketing and admin are taken out, but our sources said that figure is too low.
William H. Webster, a former director of both the F.B.I. and C.I.A., disagreed, saying that such a cabinet officer would be "without any troops" and might merely duplicate the role of the director of the White House's national security agency.
Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California has implanted microchips in rats' brains that can duplicate the role of the hippocampus in forming long-term memories, recording the neural signals involved then playing them back.
Chastened, he maintained that he had been above the fray throughout, attempting to duplicate the role of national unifier played by King Bhumibol Adulyadej in neighboring Thailand.
It will not, council members stressed, attempt to duplicate the role of the Libyan Transitional National Council, which was swiftly formed as an alternative government in the weeks after the Libyan revolt began.
