It may be that reducing spending is a rational response in the face of massive layoffs.

He said there would not be "massive layoffs within the county end of the budget."

Beginning in 2000, massive layoffs brought staff numbers down to 600.

Talk about a triumph of hope over experience, given that company's massive layoffs!

There are two reasons for the massive layoffs of foreign professionals.

But then something like these massive layoffs come along and it makes you wonder.

Even in this era of massive layoffs, being shown the door is humiliating.

"But these consolidations are often at the cost of massive layoffs."

However, he said that there were "no plans for massive layoffs."

In a year of massive layoffs, this aspect is hardly beside the point.