Company restructuring - does this always mean job losses

[RichardCranium]

Like the famous bungee boss script from dilbert.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ps4YVYPt3A

But their voices are diferent from their voices in my head! That can't be right, can it?

[BlasterBates]

Yup restructuring means we're going to sack people, replaced the hated "rightsizing" term which replaced the even more hated "downsizing".

Using the dictionary definition you restructure it means either you need more or less people, as it is highly improbable that a new structure would require exactly the same the number of people and if they wanted more, they'd be trumpting their expansion plans.

[NotAllThere]

Yup restructuring means we're going to sack people, ...

Except in the civil service where it means "we're going to take on more staff", with the option to rename the organisation in question "agency", so they're no longer classified as civil servants. So the politicians get to announce that they've cut drastically the number of civil servants.