[Ads-l] Word: restacking (business jargon)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Guffipedia
Lucy Kellaway’s dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense
https://ig.ft.com/sites/guffipedia/restacking-your-area/

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Restacking your area
Translation into plain English Moving staff to new desks
Perpetrator UK-based media company

Usage example "As most of you are aware, we will be restacking your
area on the 2nd floor on Friday 02nd April in order to create space
for Marketing." (Spotted by Chris Torrero)
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Website: nymag.com
Article: What’s Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died
(and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the
future they can afford.
Author: Reeves Wiedeman
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/conde-nast-anna-wintour-roger-lynch.html

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As David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, put it to a fellow
media executive in 2017, Condé was facing the same daunting challenges
as the rest of the media business and seemed to be in “a dignified
state of panic” as it belatedly adapted to low-margin, constantly
pivoting digital realities, closed and sold titles, and underwent a
“restacking” — the chosen euphemism for squeezing everyone onto fewer
floors so Condé could sublet some of the fancy real estate it now
realized it could no longer afford.
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Garson

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