Phrases like this make me feel a little bit queasy:
Cost Optimization Program:
The company also announced that it will begin a program to streamline operations across the organization,
which will include a headcount reduction. This realignment will be focused on taking out redundancies
and a reallocation of resources to allow us to focus on the areas that offer the highest growth opportunities
and align with RIM strategic objectives, such as accelerating new product introductions.
Sometimes PR speech is directly symptomatic of executives' thinking. They talk like this because they think like this - i.e. vague, non-committal, detached abstract concepts that sound professional but are ultimately flat, uninspired and purely reactionary.
I'm only saying this because I'm still bitter from my last employment where this kind of business talk was routinely used to fill the void where management's vision was supposed to be. It really begins to grate.
Cost Optimization Program: The company also announced that it will begin a program to streamline operations across the organization, which will include a headcount reduction. This realignment will be focused on taking out redundancies and a reallocation of resources to allow us to focus on the areas that offer the highest growth opportunities and align with RIM strategic objectives, such as accelerating new product introductions.
(Source - Research in Motion's first quarter results for fiscal 2012 - page 2 - retrieved from http://press.rim.com/financial/release.jsp?id=5051)
I wish that companies would ditch the PR speech when they announce layoffs.