Sentence examples for rather than layoffs from inspiring English sources

"Rather than layoffs, we started offering furloughs.

The newsroom staff is now 140, from 200 about a decade ago, with cuts made mainly through buyouts rather than layoffs.

G.M., Ford and DaimlerChrysler have done fairly little hiring in the last two decades, except for engineers, so they usually resort to early-retirement programs, rather than layoffs, to reduce white-collar employment, and are sometimes able to retrain employees to work in other divisions.

But Tom Gallagher, a campaign official who was Mr. Schundler's chief of staff, said that the actual reduction was 30 or 40 positions, that all the trims resulted from attrition rather than layoffs, and that the department still sent more firefighters to a one-alarm fire than any other department in New Jersey.

Program participants operating in the manufacturing industry have generated on average 6.9 % productivity growth per year, which, when we take into account that in this period the total number of employees of enterprises in this sector increased by an average of 14.1%% (Fig. 17), represents an increase in productivity achieved by means of changes in the work process, rather than layoffs.

Indeed, one reason the accounting firms are so interested in using flexibility rather than layoffs to the maximum extent possible is that, in the last recession, layoffs meant they lost business once the economy picked up because they lacked the capacity to handle the work.

Mr. Suozzi said he hoped to reduce the staff through attrition, early retirement and performance reviews rather than by layoffs.

Much of the recent weakness in the labor market has been caused by a decline in hiring, rather than increased layoffs.

But like United Airlines and American Airlines, its two larger competitors, Delta said that it still expected to lose money this quarter and had imposed a hiring freeze rather than announcing layoffs.

Rather than facing layoffs and furloughs, like reporters nowadays, while working 24/7 in three or more platforms, Saunders dabbled in radio and a bit on TV, mostly on weekends.

The company is characterizing the elimination of Providence-based positions as more of a re-organization of departments, rather than a layoff, however.