{"id":882,"date":"2010-07-29T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=882"},"modified":"2014-06-17T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:21:33","slug":"office_jargon_of_the_day_decruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/office_jargon_of_the_day_decruitment","title":{"rendered":"Office Jargon of the Day: Decruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"decruitment\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2010\/decruitment.jpg\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>decruitment, <i>n. <\/i><\/strong>the dismissal by a company of employees \u201cwho are no longer needed.\u201d Formerly known as redundancy. Delightful neologistic synonyms include \u201cuninstalling\u201d and the now veteran \u201cdownsizing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>People don\u2019t \u201cget the sack\u201d any more. This is because that expression has a negative ring which detracts from the wholly positive phenomenon of people losing their jobs \u2013 fluid labour market, capitalism is dancing \u00e0 go-go. Just ask these \u201880s dole-queuers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example: <\/strong>\u201cCuts will inevitably involve some decruitment, Fabio, but going forward, we will be a leaner, meaner and stronger operation because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; decruitment, n. the dismissal by a company of employees \u201cwho are no longer needed.\u201d Formerly known as redundancy. Delightful neologistic synonyms include \u201cuninstalling\u201d and the now veteran \u201cdownsizing\u201d. People don\u2019t \u201cget the sack\u201d any more. 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