The McDonald's Corporation said yesterday that it expected to take a pretax charge of $350 million against its second-quarter earnings to carry out previously announced staff layoffs and realignments and to pay for a new menu ordering system.
But when I asked for details of the commitment and whether the cuts would impact on Argo, a CSIRO spokesperson would only say the agency was "currently working through the impacts of the strategic realignment" with staff and research partners.
It describes how the design of the library was agreed, revised, implemented and, most importantly, received by the academic community, and considers the impact the changes have had on the usage of the library and the subsequent realignment of staffing duties to meet the demands of the new service.
The report is likely to only intensify questions about Mr. Trump's commitment to the populist ideas raised in recent weeks by several policy shifts and realignments among White House staff.
Its release comes at a moment of transition for Trump, who is weighing a number of changes to his Cabinet and senior staff and is preparing for a realignment of power in Washington in January, when Democrats take control of the House.
The Applied Biosystems Group of the Applera Corporation laid off about 145 workers, or 3.3percentt, of its staff this month to prepare for a realignment of the company into four segments.
This month, iflix let 50 of its 650 staff go as part of an apparent realignment, a source with knowledge of the business told TechCrunch.
As Blue Apron approaches its next earnings report in a couple of weeks, the company said Wednesday that it is laying off 6percentt of its staff as part of "a company-wide realignment of personnel to support its strategic priorities".
Tim Montgomerie – Iain Duncan Smith's former chief of staff, who quit the Tories this year – imagines a realignment of British politics, with the Conservatives dividing three ways: a "patriotic right" party, a "socially just, economically conservative" party, and a party of "social and economic liberals".
With social news site Digg having other notable layoffs this week, it's crucial to remember that startups often shed staff when going through product and business goal realignments.
