retirements, headcount, retention, absenteeism, layoffs, vacancies, recruitment, downsizing, redundancies, staffing, workforce, retrenchments, manpower, hiring freeze, demoralization, exodus, demoralisation, salaries, wastage, buyouts, wage, reductions, departures, retainment, burnout, seniority, redeployment, personnel, turnover, shrinkage, recruiter, morale, brain drain, positions, churn, furloughs, force, frontline, unionisation, rehires, recruiting, outsourcing, survivor guilt, bloodletting, desertion, cutbacks, collateral damage, reenlistment, erosion, trench warfare, outgo, jobs, absences, rightsize, poaching, enrollment, apers, generalist, deadwood, infiltration, trainees, corporals, terminations, hires, transiency, headhunting, persistency, victimization, immiseration, retraining, shortfall, nonunion, casualty, recidivism, payroll, underemployment, casuals, excessing, esprit de corps, nonproduction, overheads, veteran, proration, deduplication, irregulars, rationalization, elimination, cutthroat, backfill, soldiering, cuts, exigency, enlistees, administrative, bloodbath, enlistment, decline, divisions, reshuffling, professionalisation, civilianize, tactics, weakening, accumulation, debilitation, leaching, loss, subsidence, decrement, degradation, enrichment, inbreeding, rise, abrasion, curtailment, debasement, deterioration, diminution

attritional

decrease, detrition, drop-off, eating away, eroding, friction, lessening, regret, rubbing, ruefulness, sorrow, wearing, wearing away

contriteness, contrition, corrasion, grinding