Redundancy
by Sarah
We are all hearing a lot of doom and gloom at the moment, job cuts, bank bailouts and stock market crashes. The R word is hot news with firms cutting back on fixed costs. At the moment the effects of the recession have not found their way into all sectors. Manufacturing and those linked to house building appear to have been the hardest hit.
We have seen some conveyancing solicitors with redundancy packages from local firms as well as those in the commercial sector. Indirect costs such as marketing are being cut which inevitably means those in that area of the business are at risk.
Not all sectors are feeling the pinch and people are trying to lighten the mood. On the BBC today they had some jokes viewers had texted in. My favourite was how do you define optimism? When a banker irons 5 shirts on a Sunday night! Funny or not…… you decide………………….
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phil said at October 13th, 2008 at 9:53 pm