Corporate dieting: fewer and fewer people are being forced to do more and more work.(New Economy - White Collar Workers) From: Canada and the World Backgrounder | Date: March 1, 1995| Author: Veerasingham, K. | COPYRIGHT 1995 Canada & the World. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Blue-collar workers are laid-off. White-collar workers are "de-layered." This a polite way of saying the same thing. Survival in the dog-eat-dog world of capitalism has forced hundreds of industries to remove entire layers of management. Those that survive the de-layering process must work harder and longer to make up for their missing colleagues. After all, the work didn't go away, just some of the people who did it.

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