Business BafflegabEuphemism
Head Count
hed kowntnoun
What it means
Employees, counted as a resource right up until the moment they are counted as a cost.
What it actually means
People, but on a spreadsheet.
How it is used in a sentence
"We're managing head count carefully into next year."
Filed under
Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.
Euphemism — The phrase hides something specific. We decode it.
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