Today, it has 300 people, out of a total work force of 3, 500, monitoring spam, resetting users' passwords and flagging user complaints to higher-level executives.
Headquarters staff numbers only 80, a tiny fraction of Ahold's worldwide work force of about 350, 000 (including U.S. Foodservice's).
Electric car manufacturer BYD Company said it will lay off 70% of its work force after poor reviews of its vehicles added to the current sales slump, the Shanghai Daily reported on Wednesday.
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Subsidizing unemployment (which he has no idea how to end) to the point that over ten million Americans have dropped out of the work force shows the depth of the depression of working Americans.
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All of this is causing an increase in inequality in America rather than a decline, as higher income workers are not being forced into part-time work, dropping out of the work force, or suffering mid-wage jobs being replaced by low-wage jobs.
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After completion of the Task Force work, I worked on implementation of the Task Force recommendations.
"Among issues that businesses are concerned about is what kind of work-force will they have, what will it do to education and will it alter the quality of life, " he says.
Negotiations with its European unions over work practices, retirement benefits and the size of the work force is a running story.
If you lay off 10 percent of the work force, you might have just gotten rid of the person who has the key to the bathroom.
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The budget also cuts Detroit's work force of 11, 400 but isn't specific, officials said.
But Durham county councillor John Shuttleworth hit out at the work of the task force.
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Tatar plans to reduce Mead's white-collar work force of 5, 000 by 7% by the middle of 1999.
Before Tuesday night, the Defense Department had been preparing to issue furlough notices for its entire civilian work force of 800, 000.
Current Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott sounded a cautious note Friday, stating several times he cared about his work force of nearly 80, 000 teachers.
And now, thanks to the work of the Task Force, we have a road map for implementing our plan across our government and across the country.
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Now, when we retire, at present rates of work-force participation and birth rates and immigration rates, there will only be about two people working for every one person drawing Social Security.
Specifically, Executive Order 13554 recognized the importance of carefully coordinating the work of the Task Force with the Trustee Council, whose members have statutory responsibility to assess natural resources damages from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, to restore trust resources, and seek compensation for lost use of those trust resources.
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While it does appear to be true that most households receiving benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP is the new name for food stamps) are out of the work force, a significant fraction do have earnings and most of the rest are poor elderly or disabled households or single parents with children.
Mr Ban has also extended the work of the Procurement Task Force, likewise set up in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal, to investigate allegations of fraud in procurement deals.
Slightly more than half of the work force is in agriculture, but services are the major source of economic growth, accounting for more than half of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force.
The decline in the unemployment rate wasn't the result of more people getting jobs, but, rather, almost 500, 000 individuals leaving the work force because of layoffs as well as retirement and other reasons.
Of men over age 16 only 74.4% of French and 79.9% of Germans are in the work force, compared with 84% of Americans.
Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, currently make up at least one-third of our nation's work force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Many in the utility industry worry that the most vulnerable part of the power system is its work force, as a wave of retirements is depleting the supply of linemen and other craftsmen who keep the lights on.
The Administration has cut the size of the Federal civilian work force by more than 365, 000 people, creating the smallest work force in 35 years and, as a share of total civilian employment, the smallest since 1931.
Japan, by contrast, needed to scrap its antiquated banking system, migrate half of its industrial work force into new-technology exploits and open up its service economy to the withering discipline of foreign competition.
Northwest Airlines announced Friday it would cut 10, 000 jobs, nearly a fifth of its work force.
Go back 25 years when manufacturing employment comprised 25 percent of the work force.
Immigrants make up nearly one-fifth of the work force, mainly in agricultural and unskilled jobs.
Only about 12% of the work force has access to paid family leave through employers.
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