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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (46176)5/3/2001 7:49:37 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
Jacob, >It costs a lot of money to fire people (or voluntarily-terminate-with-an-inventive), and a lot of money to hire people<

IBM terminated lots of people with lump sum payments in 1994 to save costs. Some of them were hired right back as temps. It's not as straight-forward as you think.

Gottfried