Business BafflegabEuphemism
Reorg
REE-orgnoun
What it means
A restructure in which nobody is fired and a third of the staff are simply no longer here.
What it actually means
There were firings.
How it is used in a sentence
"The reorg will make us leaner and faster."
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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Employees, counted as a resource right up until the moment they are counted as a cost.
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