First of all, any savings in the early years would certainly be more likely to be achieved at the cost of labour. You used the term “firing”. I suggest that this shouldn't happen or couldn't happen. You can't just take an organization and choose to fire a whole lot of people. If you could do it--I mean, there is legislation and regulations around this--it just throws the system. You're already on a pathway to trying to achieve something with the recommendations, then all of a sudden you have all of this resistance, because you're firing people, as you put it, haphazardly. I suggest that this would push out, well beyond your planning, if you have a plan, the ability to achieve the end result. It makes your plan longer. You just can't work with a workforce like that. You just can't make those decisions just like that without some kind of response or reaction.
On February 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.