Consulting & Strategy Jargon · Managing Director level

"Rightsizing"

"Rightsizing" means reducing the number of employees at a company, reframed as bringing headcount to the correct level rather than cutting jobs.

Say this instead: cutting staff

How "Rightsizing" shows up at work

Consultants and executives favor this term because it implies the previous size was simply wrong rather than that people are being let go. Nobody in the building is fooled, but the word appears in press releases anyway.

Buzzword

Leadership announced a rightsizing initiative affecting roughly 8 percent of the workforce.

Plain English

Leadership announced it is cutting staff, affecting roughly 8 percent of the workforce.

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