Sony has improved margins in its electronics business and reduced headcount by 10, 000 ahead of schedule.

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Cray said that the reduced headcount will yield cost savings in future period.

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Perhaps it sees the reduced headcount as a way to better handle financing the expansion, and it may slowly hire workers back as conditions warrant.

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The carrier expects 300 to 400 pilots to retire by year end and is readjusting capacity downward to match the reduced headcount in the fourth quarter.

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Today, Agilent has a dozen or so, and has also reduced headcount to 28, 000 from 44, 000, offshoring and outsourcing so much of its business that it eliminated 5 million square feet of office space.

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Only 20% of businesses indicated that they had reduced IT headcount as a result of a cloud transition.

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The 740 branches will be reduced by a third, and the headcount has already fallen from 26, 000 to 18, 000.

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Job growth has been sluggish during the economic recovery, but most of our top 100 companies added headcount the past three years (only four reduced the number of employees).

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The decrease is primarily attributable to the continuing effects of actions taken in conjunction with Clearwire's cost cutting initiatives in 2011 including lower employee-related expenses resulting from headcount reductions and outsourcing of the customer care function, reduced marketing spend, as well as decreased selling commission expense associated with our no-contract product offering which was launched at the beginning of 2012.

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