In order to optimize personnel structure and assist employees to secure new opportunities outside the Company, early retirement programs will be implemented at Sony Corporation, Sony EMCS Corp. and other major consolidated electronics subsidiaries in Japan.

ENGADGET: Sony restructuring in Japan: camera lens plant to close with loss of 2,000 jobs

Aside from budgeting, there is also the issue of the personnel composition and structure of AFRICOM.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: AFRICOM proceeds apace

This could leave the services vulnerable if one of the other major contingencies resolves itself before we have a transformation strategy in place, creating a strong demand for immediate, deep, and unwise cuts in force structure and personnel.

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In order to professionalize its activities, WikiLeaks will now pay key personnel based on a salary structure developed by the environmental activist organization Greenpeace.

WSJ: WikiLeaks Has Sharply Raised Spending

Can fandom use a corporate structure to pick executive personnel like other major corporations?

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Report author Tom Gash says that the present pay structure is a disincentive for personnel to develop specialist skills in vital fields like tackling serious crime, serious violence and gang-related gun crime.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Report reignites police pay row

To make sure we have the right force structure, we've halted reductions in Navy personnel and increased the size of the Marine Corps.

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