Airline staff at head-office received an e-mail telling them to collect their belongings and go home.
Davis immediately replaced 11 of the top 12 senior executives, reduced head-office personnel by 40% and interviewed 110 managers across the company.
Firms are also developing apps that let employees unlock some of the data that are held in head-office enterprise systems more easily.
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The head-office decisions that led to the banks' hasty withdrawal from Asia have left the Japanese with few friends among the region's borrowers.
Not all of these benefits would flow from removing head-office duplication and overlapping operations such as mines and the railways linking them to ports.
Rent and utilities for the factory floor works out to about 11 cents per shirt, and head-office and marketing costs for the factory are 11 cents.
Davis immediately replaced 11 of the top 12 senior executives at the various headquarters, reduced head-office personnel by 40%, and interviewed 110 managers across the company.
Mr Fourtou is also busy moving Vivendi's headquarters out of the swanky Park Avenue offices acquired by Mr Messier, trimming the headcount there, and returning head-office activities to Paris.
While serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.
As companies evolve into loose bundles of alliances, suppliers and distributors, bound together mainly by communications, head office may re-emerge as the best place from which to run the show.
There are many memories for me in this building, from nights in the BBC Club - including one where I ended up helping Frankie Howerd back to the head of light entertainment's office - through to photo shoots, and all the colleagues I have worked with.
Espoo, Finland - Nokia has agreed to sell and lease back its head office building in Espoo, Finland on a long-term lease to Finland-based Exilion.
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The head of the office of faith-based initiatives is a Roman Catholic, John DiIulio.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), a network of 31 non-government organisations whose head office was raided by police in February, is deploying about 600 observers.
Field employees and remote workers can share live streams with each other or with colleagues back at the head office, providing real-time visibility and collaboration in the field.
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It protects its highly portable assets with a GPS system, which tracks the location of each car and transmits it back to head office using the mobile-phone network.
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The head of the IRS tax-exempt office has said the practice was started in a branch office in Cincinnati, Ohio, where most of the applications were processed, and was not motivated by political bias.
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The meeting will open with welcome addresses by Vassya Bankova, chair of RSC, Mario Scalet, Head of Science unit - UNESCO Venice Office, and Berhanu Abegaz, Executive Director - African Academy of Sciences and vice chair of the Consultative Board - International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP).
"Anyone doing something totally new always meets strong resistance, " recalls Hirano of his effort to win top-brass backing for the head office securitization.
The head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, for example, thinks that paper overestimated the burden of brain injuries, overstated the cost of replacing munitions and equipment, and misattributed other military expenses.
Bush has made smart choices in picking the widely-respected Sheila Cheston as his new general counsel and Hill-savvy Sid Ashworth to head the Washington office.
John DiIulio, the head of his newly created office of faith-based and community initiatives, is one of the most impressive social scientists of his generation.
In a growing number of cases, mounting losses and new financial disclosure rules have forced companies into selling or securitizing the head office to raise funds for write-offs.
He has already pulled off some notable coups, including getting the Chancellor George Osborne to agree that his committee must approve the hiring of the head of the new Office for Budget Responsibility - the body which has the job of keeping the Government's economic numbers honest.
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Monitor execution of Regular Budget and extra-budgetary resources and advise the Head of Office or the designate accordingly on their revisions: administer day to day budgetary issues within the Office, ensure the appropriate budgetary control, validate and process requests made to BFM for allotments and funds transfers, and provide relevant information requested.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Finance and Administrative Officer ( 21/3/2011) (AR/RP/PAL/BFC/0005 - (P1P2)) PDF
This week, the United States took its first step to address the problems with the arrival in Baghdad of Paul Bremer, a former head of counter-terrorism in the State Department, to replace General Jay Garner as head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq.
Barbara Manzi, head of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), told the BBC from Sittwe it appeared the boats "left the camp with the blessing of the authorities before hitting rocks".
Major General Mary Kay Hertog, then-head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, advised survivors of sexual assaults to talk to their congressman if they were not satisfied with how the military dealt with their case.
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