ABSTRACT
‘Does that mean you’re getting rid of jobs?’ says one reporter, sticking a microphone under Phil’s nose.
Phil ignores him and goes on reading from a prepared statement. ‘The business has been impacted by a mix of soft demand for our services in a sluggish globalized economy plus competition in the sunrise economies.’ Phil always talks in management jargon.
‘Conditions have deteriorated more than expected,’ he went on. ‘People will understand that with the cost reductions we’re making, some of them will come through labour number reductions. And now I’m going to pass you over to my colleague who will talk you through some of the details’ And with that he hands you the microphone, and disappears. The press surge forward expectantly.
