Sentence examples for layoff as from inspiring English sources

A widely available but often ignored corporate perk — the employee assistance program — can help workers who are suddenly facing a layoff, as well as those who worry that the same fate will befall them.

According to the epilogue of the new edition of Bill Carter's book, "The Late Shift" (1994) Letterman cancelled one week of a two-week vacation last year because he felt he couldn't afford a full layoff as long as Leno was still pumping out product.

The results show that for workers holding a temporary contract, benefits reduce the layoff as well as the quit probability.

Beyond.com also recently announced a 20% layoff as well as plans to change its business strategy from selling software to consumers to selling to businesses.

She said she saw the layoff as an opportunity for an extended vacation before she starts her next job.

In time I would see the layoff as one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Yesterday, Lucent Technologies and the Ford Motor Company disclosed layoffs, as well.

She said it guarantees no layoffs as long as revenue does not drop by more than 5percentt in one quarter.

The Washington City Paper, another newsweekly owned by the same company, announced five newsroom layoffs as well.

Not every agency dismissing employees is making massive layoffs, as happened a decade ago when a national recession deeply wounded Madison Avenue.

During the 1980s, a time of economic crisis known as "the lost decade" in Latin America, Mexico City experienced large-scale factory closings and layoffs as well as a decline in rural-to-urban migration.