Wal-Mart, in what appeared to be an attempt to counter employee and union complaints about thin staffing and low wages, centered the meeting on extolling the value of its employees.
But the increasingly thin staffing of newsrooms seems to be encouraging the spinners to be more shameless than ever with such tactics.Besides noting the decline of traditional news outlets, some in PR see new opportunities in the cacophony of voices in online social media.
The São Paulo state bureaucracy tries to administer its 5,000 schools and 230,000 teachers with a thin staff on low pay.
For others, it is a way to step away from depleted 401(k) plans, thin staffs and restrictive management.
2) Yankees – May take a step back before resurgence in '09 and '10 3) Blue Jays – Solid team outfitted in baseball's worst uniforms 4) Rays – Will win 81 games in '08… then David Price hits the scene 5) Orioles – Thin staff will take a beating in rough division A.L. Central 1) Indians – Should increase sales of "Free Byrd," the Paul Byrd autobiography.
"It used to be, 'God bless you.' Now it's, 'Why did it take you so long?"' The problem is not just full planes, it is also thin staffs, said Dawn Deeks, a spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, which represents 40,000 employees at 26 airlines.
Pre-revenue startups may be more flexible to arrange participation in an accelerator program, while post-revenue startups find it more difficult to manage their other operational priorities with a typically thin staff.
And, of course, there are the fundamentals: his campaign debt, his thin staff, and the fact that he's mainly campaigning at book signing events at airport hotels.
In a series of Glassdoor reviews, the CEO and exec team were taken to task for their decision-making, approach to the brand, and overworking an already stretched-thin staff, among other things.
Because of thin ATF staffing and weak penalties, the traditional strategy of arresting suspected straw buyers as soon as possible had failed to stop the flow of tens of thousands of guns to Mexico — more than 68,000 in the past five years.
Many economists had forecast that economic and job growth would shift to higher gear this year, with households positioned to spend more, businesses stretched thin on staffing, and the drag from government cutbacks and political gamesmanship having largely faded.
