These measures include layoffs, outsourcing jobs, replacing salaried employees with contract staff, and putting employees onto short-term teams designed to tackle individual projects.

这些措施包括裁员，外包，合约员工取代受薪雇员，或将员工分在短期工作小组中，目的是处理个别项目。

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The contract also supports ASC’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence and Security, the officials said.

该合同还支持ASC情报和安全局的副参谋总长。

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When a major client was unwilling to sign a contract without specific staff commitments, the director enlisted the relationship manager to help make the case to the functional leader.

正在这时，由于没有得到明确的人员承诺，一个很大的客户拒绝在合同上签字。

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The company did not wish to comment on the claims of one worker, who told the BBC the closure would also affect 50 contract staff at the plant.

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Dave Brown, from Lancashire, works for the global services arm of BT, told BBC Five Live that agency and contract staff were taken on in the knowledge they would be the first to go.

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In some companies, they may even be temporary or contract staff, sometimes provided by a large public accounting firm, if specialized expertise or extra arms and legs are needed for a merger, a restatement, or a tax problem.

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