"just stop buying people until you need them. They're the expensive bit." If only they could be bought that easy right when you'd need them. At least in a corp

"just stop buying people until you need them. They're the expensive bit." If only they could be bought that easy right when you'd need them. At least in a corporation, the HR will tell you "50 engineers? That's going to take X monts, judging from the hiring rate we had so far."