I think this is a misunderstanding. If I understood correctly, you are saying the company needs to reduce its size and therefore randomly eliminate people at s

I think this is a misunderstanding. If I understood correctly, you are saying the company needs to reduce its size and therefore randomly eliminate people at some positions (say, need to reduce engineering by 10%), while the other commenter was challenging the fact that the company needs, as a whole and independently of the position to reduce its staff by x%. Both are possible.