That would look like the mass layoffs of the sorts of people whose job is general preventative maintenance, or who are employed at higher cost due to their know

That would look like the mass layoffs of the sorts of people whose job is general preventative maintenance, or who are employed at higher cost due to their knowledge. Generally the sorts of things that reduce short term costs immediately, while causing much larger pain in some not-right-now future. For real-life examples of this, see many private equity buyouts.