CORPORATE ANOREXIA

corporate anorexia: translation

(KOR.puh.rit an.uh.REKS.ee.uh)

n.

A business disorder, marked by an extreme fear of becoming inefficient that leads to excessive cost-cutting to the point of serious loss of business and sometimes bankruptcy.

Some business bosses unfortunately have blinders on and feel that drastic cost-cutting alone is the answer when times are tough. They develop corporate anorexia. Those companies have become so skinny they'll be the last to get healthy again.

— Al Neuharth, "What will be top 10 headlines in 2002?," USA Today, January 4, 2002

Combine the complexity of modern life, natural human insecurity and the current mood of "corporate anorexia — cutting staff out of fear of getting fat," and you create paranoia, says psychologist Dr.Richard Earle, director of the Canadian Institute of Stress in Mississauga.

— Louise Brown, "Office Paranoia," The Toronto Star, August 30, 1986

My definition of today's phrase is a play on the following definition of anorexia nervosa: "An eating disorder, marked by an extreme fear of becoming overweight that leads to excessive dieting to the point of serious ill-health and sometimes death."

bleachorexia

boomerang

bozo explosion

capsizing

carborexic

cashier

downaging

dumbsizing

inshoring

layoff lust

nearshoring

offshorable

presenteeism

pro-ana

revector

RIF

rightshoring

Corporate Culture

Layoffs and Firings

упр. корпоративная депрессия [апатия\]* (болезненное состояние компании, возникшее в результате реализации программы сокращения издержек, в ходе которой была уволена большая часть творческого персонала; выражается в неспособности компании на протяжении длительного периода времени разрабатывать новую продукцию, творчески решать сложные проблемы и т. п.)