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		rmason on July 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Ruin Your Company With One Bad Process Read a story once where someone said at a company wide meeting with the CEO, if you continue to refer to us as "headcount" then we're going to start calling you "overhead".

Flimm on July 23, 2014 [–]

I don't understand what's wrong with the term "headcount".

walshemj on July 23, 2014 | [–]

its the dehumanising nature of HR jargon - probably makes it easier to right size the work force if you don't get to close to your "talent"

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