natural wastage en · NOUN
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(UK, uncountable) Decrease of workforce caused by non-replacement of retiring or voluntarily resigning employees and not by deliberate layoffs.
From just over 476,500 employees in 1962, by 1973 the total was just over 250,000. Much of this was achieved via 'natural wastage' - controlling recruitment closely and not replacing staff as they retired.
2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:Of the total labour force now threatened with redundancy, of course, a proportion will be covered by natural wastage, so that the number eventually thrown out of railway work will be well below 19,000.
1962 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. works staff cut by a third”, in Modern Railways, page 221:
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fi luonnollinen poistuma (natural workforce attrition) · nl natuurlijk verloop (natural workforce attrition)