I'm sub-contracted to a blue chip manufacturing Fortune 250, who everyone has heard of. Before COVID, I was strolling through the cubicle warren, and really not

I'm sub-contracted to a blue chip manufacturing Fortune 250, who everyone has heard of. Before COVID, I was strolling through the cubicle warren, and really noticing all the things pasted on to every carpeted vertical surface. No matter where you stood, you could see 2 or 3 copies of every notice: local office news, flyers about insurance, community volunteer efforts, secondary education programs, etc. I suddenly realized that, in this company of ~60K employees, there was a veritable small army of people who were involved in this effort: designing, printing, having printing done, hanging, taking down, etc. All of that is gone now. Some companies are getting through this economic turndown by simply slowing down hiring, and reassigning people from jobs about which people ask "yeah, but what do these people actually do?" If we get through the end of next year's first quarter without a layoff, I'll give props to senior management.