rightsizing
Workforce reduction euphemism
Rightsizing is corporate euphemism for layoffs or restructuring, framing workforce reductions as achieving the correct organizational size rather than cutting jobs.
The term implies the company was previously the wrong size: The company announced rightsizing initiatives affecting three hundred employees.
Like downsizing, it softens the reality of people losing their livelihoods.
Mass job eliminations
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- terminationAct of ending something
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
- dismissalRemoval from position
furloughs · outplacement · attrition · retrenchment · cutbacks · displacement · joblessness · delayering
Maximizing efficiency or performance
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- leanLacking fat; incline
- productivityOutput relative to input
- automationSelf-operating system design
workflow · utilization · benchmarking · performance · scalability · kaizen · throughput
Changing how something's arranged
- realignmentAdjusting relative positions
- transformationThorough change in form
- reengineeringFundamentally reworking existing processes
- overhaulComplete systematic repair
consolidation · modernization · centralization · decentralization · redesign · reshuffling · revitalization · reorientation
Reducing expenditures deliberately
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- trimmingCutting away excess
- curtailmentAct of reducing scope
layoffs
Mass job eliminations
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- terminationAct of ending something
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
dismissal · furloughs · outplacement · attrition · retrenchment · cutbacks · displacement · joblessness · delayering
optimization
Maximizing efficiency or performance
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- leanLacking fat; incline
- productivityOutput relative to input
automation · workflow · utilization · benchmarking · performance · scalability · kaizen · throughput
reorganization
Changing how something's arranged
- realignmentAdjusting relative positions
- transformationThorough change in form
- reengineeringFundamentally reworking existing processes
overhaul · consolidation · modernization · centralization · decentralization · redesign · reshuffling · revitalization · reorientation · divestiture
belt-tightening
Reducing expenditures deliberately
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- trimmingCutting away excess
- buzzwordssynergy, leverage, paradigm, stakeholder, scalable
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- reducingshrinking, lessening, diminishing, decreasing, cutting back
- cost cuttingcost cutting, budgeting, cost reduction, budget, budget cuts
- HR actionshiring, firing, layoff, promotion, demotion
- staffingstaffing, turnover rates, hiring, staffing firm, staffing agency
rightsizinghiring
Giving someone work
expanding · staffing up · recruiting · hiring spree · expansion
rightsizingoverstaffing
Surplus of workers
bloating · empire building · redundancy · inefficiency · overexpansion
rightsizinglayoffs
Mass job eliminations
firing · mass layoffs · workforce reduction · sacking · pink slips
right, size, downsize, downsizing, downsized, resize, downsizes, resizing, resized