Reply #25: And some companies are using the bad economy as an excuse...

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to lower manpower by letting go their employees. I have seen this in the Healthcare sector.

I have seen nurses (while there is a national shortage of nurses) for the first time in years complaining of needing more hours because no one is hiring, while at the same time one can see more and bigger facilities being built. The number of patients going to Emergency rooms have not gone down (at least in my area) and I heard this morning in the news that the only companies making profits are in the Healthcare sector and some in financial institutions (sorry cannot provide a link since it was something I heard this morning in one of the news networks).

I think companies will trying to make a profit no matter what and this time they could do so by callously letting go of their employees.