Quotes about attrition (15 Quotes)




    This action is part of Dana's continued effort to improve cost competitiveness throughout its operations. The company expects to achieve this reduction predominantly through normal retirements and attrition.

    I think the companies are indicating a willingness to give strong wage increases. If they can cut five percent of the work force through attrition, they can give 4 percent wage gains annually and come out ahead.



    We hoped to achieve our goals through attrition, reduced hiring and other voluntary means. Despite our best efforts, it became clear that getting to our targets required a number of involuntary separations.


    We believe Bell-Cable competition will unfold like the Vietnam War, with many battles stretching over a long period of time. It will be a war of attrition, where the player with the greatest cash flow to fund its arsenal wins.

    With revenue growth slowing, Ballmer has tried to squeeze more down to the bottom line to make the company more appealing to investors, ... Even the cuts that seem trivial have dampened morale. Just whisper the word 'towels' to any Microsoft employee, and eyes roll. Last year, Microsoft stopped providing a towel service for workers who used company locker rooms after bike rides or workouts. Employees who helped the company build its huge cash stockpile were furious. And don't even mention stock options. Employees long counted on them to bolster their salaries. Microsoft minted thousands of employee millionaires as the stock climbed 61,000 from its 1986 public offering to its peak in 2001. Now shares are trading exactly were they were seven years ago. Microsoft has doubled its payroll in that time, adding more than 30,000 new employees, not including attrition. That means more than half of Microsoft's employees have received virtually no benefit from their stock holdings.


    Current condition of the BYU football program I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.



    This year, for a lot reasons and for a lot of teams, has been an exercise in survival. Getting past the attrition of a long year for a lot of different reasons, ... We both survived in probably the toughest division in baseball to get to a point where whomever wins that series will probably get in. It doesn't matter how we got here. It's what we do the rest of the way.

    This may be a blessing for some courses, ... The attrition of the facilities hopefully will match the attrition of the population. The golfers that played at City Park or Eastover will want to play golf. So they will have to go to other facilities.



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