"trim staff" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to reducing or decreasing the number of employees or staff members in a company or organization. Example: The company decided to trim staff in order to cut costs and improve efficiency. As a result, several employees were laid off and the company's overall expenses were reduced.
Outsourcing has allowed it to trim staff.
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Among the main culprits are vested interests, market structure and rigidities in bank ownership.Although bankers in America and Britain have long been able to trim staff and branches through mergers, this has always been harder in continental Europe.
The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan's third-largest private employer, plans to cut up to 6,500 jobs using early retirement incentives, extending plans to trim staff through attrition as competition stiffens.
But as studios trim staff and producer deals, many are now hoping to emulate some of the entrepreneurial cowboys — David Geffen, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner come to mind — from the generation of moguls that preceded them.
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Recently, Wells Fargo has been developing its online and mobile banking operations so that it can trim staffing costs in its branches.
The news organization's need to "trim staffing" may not end with buyouts, however.
"USA TODAY announced Wednesday that it will offer buyout packages to veteran employees to trim staffing, its latest effort to cut costs and invest more in digital products amid a plan by parent company Gannett to spin off the publishing business as a separate company," Roger Yu, a media business reporter for USA Today, wrote in his post about the company's "Early Retirement Opportunity Program".
Many American and European investment banks have been trimming staff in Hong Kong as well.
The union has also trimmed staff levels and agreed to lower starting wage scales to bring down manufacturing costs.
