Instead of expanding their businesses they could start reducing staff numbers, leading to redundancies.

无须扩展市场，他们可以开始减少员工的数量，这导致裁员。

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Steve Switzer, site leader at Walkers Lincoln, said bosses had been successful in reducing the number of redundancies from 87 to 72 out of about 250 employees at the site.

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"The situation is that because of the volatility of the market, they have been looking at redundancies and other ways of reducing costs and overheads, " he said.

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