221 Quotes by John Challenger

With M&A activity up, we're seeing more condensing of things like duplicate headquarters, banks on adjacent corners, duplicate warehouses, ... It's definitely something that's going to fuel more downsizing in 2004.

Tech cuts have been trending downward year after year as firms continue to regain their strength after the devastating dot-com collapse in 2000 and 2001.

Going through the front door is a lot better than e-mailing your resume and waiting for them to call.

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

We may well have reached the peak of the economic cycle earlier in the year.

Poverty and hunger are rapidly becoming a workplace issue... if for no other reason than the fact than an employee who is worried about where his or her next meal will come from is not going to be very productive.

We may now have moved into the second half of a slowdown, ... because these big layoffs have begun to appear more regularly.

Human resource executives and low-tech industries are at their wits' ends trying to find skilled personnel.

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.