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Keeping Up When Sizing Down

Posted January 30, 2009 8:23 AM

Look around you. Companies everywhere are tightening their belts. Yours will too, if it hasn't already. And despite sluggish sales and budget pressures, you still have to get your work done, producing quality products, developing the next generation, and so on. How do you keep your morale up when the news if often so dismal? How do you cope with cost cutting, staff reductions, and other challenges? How are you increasing your productivity to take up the slack left by former occupants of the now empty desks? How do you manage your workload? Are you stretching out your product-release schedules? Are you working more hours than you did a year ago just to keep your job?

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Re: Keeping Up When Sizing Down

01/30/2009 10:06 AM

Yeaaaahhhhh!!! Is a 'Dog eat Dog' outhere these days. A lot of money but a lot of excusas as well. Think about it for a second. For example how come that some towns are having excedents surpluses and others are having deficits all around? Hmmmmnnnn! I don't Know Buddies! Something is fishy somewhere,doesn't? I Guess So, But anyhow, I did heared that these are somekind of 'Financial Crisis' cycles or so every once in the blue moon. What ever is are the same old story. The poors got more poorer and the rich more richies, doesn't? They Lied hard work do kill people. Where is the Money then? No Brainer!

Show me the Money,

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Re: Keeping Up When Sizing Down

02/01/2009 7:08 AM

If your still there then they have the faith in your abilites to help pull the company thru these hard times. Plus it opens the door for you to learn more by picking up some parts a job that someone else use to do. You never know where the weak point will be that can made or break the company until it breaks.

Stop reading the bad news it will always be there.

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Re: Keeping Up When Sizing Down

02/23/2009 2:04 AM

Great Insight on the subject. Thanks!

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Re: Keeping Up When Sizing Down

02/23/2009 10:56 AM

Tightening belts is sometimes code for 'stop spending', and companies must spend a buck to make any margins. My mother (Nasa Scientist) used to say "poor people can't afford to buy cheap". I work in Manufacturing Engineering and Business Development, and have seen a lot of "buy cheap" philosophies coming out of our high end OEM's Supplier Chain management. Staying up with technology and improving processes to produce quality products isn't free or cheap. For the most part we will get the quality and reliability that we choose (or are able) to pay for.
In response to the last question, my response is YES. Those of us that still have a place to go to work and earn a living should be willing to work more hours and spend more of our own time in consideration of what they can do to improve the condition of the company that they support. I believe that the benefits will almost always pay off.

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