リストラ

営業マンだって、リストラ予備軍に配属されないように必死な訳(わけ)です。

After all, even salesmen are desperate to avoid being targeted for downsizing.

リストラされた彼(かれ)は心機一転、自宅を拠点にＳＯＨＯビジネスを始めた。

After getting downsized he started off on a clean slate and started a business working out of a home office.

会議の席(せき)で常務は、開口一番何(なに)を言ったと思う。大規模なリストラ計画を発表したんだよな。

Guess what the managing director started off the meeting by saying. The first thing out of his mouth was an announcement of some major restructuring.