He subsequently cut the group's headcount by more than 14,000 in an attempt to reduce costs.
Mr. Gourgeon presented the outlines of that plan in September, which included a hiring freeze as a first step with an eye to reducing the group's headcount of 87,000 employees by 2 percent a year through attrition.
While the current financial owners have significantly boosted profits at the Attachmate group (reducing headcount by at least 40% since making their original purchases), Micro Focus's management has a good record of optimising cost structures and we note that its revenue per employee run-rate is 27% higher than that of Attachmate.
And that group of organizations, including Headcount, Voto Latino, Nonprofit VOTE, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), League of Women Voters, and the Fair Elections Legal Network launched the first National Voter Registration Day in 2012.
Patagonia also gave $200,000 to two nonprofits: NextGen Climate, founded by the billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, and HeadCount, a group that registers voters at concerts.
Additional costs were cut by a group-wide reduction in headcount of 830, about 7% of the total workforce.
We didn't realize at the time that the more we got comfortable calling groups of our colleagues "headcount," the less human we would become.
As RBS is reducing its headcount across the group, it could still pay 200% bonuses to a dwindling group of investment bankers earning over £1m a year without increasing its overall pay and bonus bill.
Headcount across the group is now at the lowest level since 2007," he said.
In 1989, the anonymous activist group Guerilla Girls inaugurated their irregular headcount of female artists versus female nude sculptures shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
