"Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers" - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/meta-facebook-...
"Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees" - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core...
Would anyone actually use that? For example if you were complaining about the bureaucracy of dealing with your manager's process, you might face retaliation. Or worse, a lot of the bureaucracy may actually be due to the edicts of higher up executives.
Or is this just a stunt to virtue signal efficiency?
More often in big companies, the processes keeps getting bigger and more convoluted as time passes by.
Usually the change in process is approved by higher ups, but they might not have full visibility of the process as they're not the ones who are going through these processes (people below them are).
There's no reason to believe the sky is blue.
...even want to identify...
Short of cuts of an entire division, sounds like fairy tales. Now, they might want to claim they have or have not done so; that's a different issue.
And yes, there is at least some evidence to believe they do that identification somewhat successfully: their business is working.
Anyway, I've made my point every way possible now, it's time to leave it and let those who understand, understand.