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rightsizing
verb
Present participle of rightsize
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They may be "downsizing"—or, more positively, "rightsizing".
Although downsizing implies a reduction in assets, it is not (as its critics often maintain) merely a reduction in human assets.Other terms have been used to distance the concept from its association with ruthless job-slashing for example, rightsizing and restructuring.
Instead of downsizing, the bank talks of "rightsizing".
I want to reassure you that this is very different from downsizing, which is something we haven't done since before the word "rightsizing" was invented.
The United States, by rightsizing its operational fleet of Trident nuclear-armed subs to 8 or fewer from 12 and building no more than 8 new nuclear-armed subs, could still deploy the same number of strategic nuclear warheads at sea as is planned (about 1,000) and save roughly $26 billion over 10 years, $31 billion over 30 years, and $120 billion over the life of the program.
This means allowing the Postal Service to make its own decisions about "rightsizing" its operations, including being able to close post offices, offer services in other retail locations, cut personnel and control employee benefit packages.
Given the demonstrated safety of nurse anesthetists, let's allow them to practice as they have been prepared and focus on rightsizing the needed ratio of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists.
Credit Suisse is cutting 4,000 jobs, including "rightsizing the bank's London presence".
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In the first IBM annual report after his appointment as chief executive of the huge consulting company Lou Gerstner said: "Shortly after I joined, I set as my highest priority to rightsize the company as quickly as we could".Downsizing was at its most intense in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Those of you who are selected will be called upon to assist with immediate efforts to rightsize our workforce.
PASSENGER traffic at the airports is rising a bit, because of the season and the end of major combat in Iraq, but the number of security screeners is falling, as the Transportation Security Administration "rightsizes" itself to fit budget mandates.
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