This is something that's actually in the process of happening at my workplace. The CEO is trying to reduce our shifts by half, because there isn't enough work

This is something that's actually in the process of happening at my workplace. The CEO is trying to reduce our shifts by half, because there isn't enough work for us to do. (He's a poor CEO, we have a terrible reputation throughout the city, and very few people will bother to do business with us.) The manager is fighting it, because if they cut our shifts by half we still pay the same for commuting, so he'll lose most of his staff in the first few days and be stuck with a bunch of untrained new recruits.