To: Olivier Pelletier
Office Manager
From: Susan Dumouchel
Assistant Manager
Ref: CF/AB
Date: October 24th, 2008
REPORT ON “THE COMPANY"S OFFICE MEETING.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Since you missed the last office meeting which was held on Monday October 20, I wanted to keep you up to date by writing a short report. Many subjects were brought up, but one of them was especially important. “The Company” wants to cut 6,000 jobs over the next five months. As we discussed, many points supported this precised subject. “The Company” is losing a lot of money; therefore we have no choice but to cut our staff. Every reason for the layoffs revolves around this serious money problem.
2.0 REASONS
2.1 Competition
As you know, we have lost many customers because of “The Bad Company”. They sell almost the same merchandise as us, but at lower cost. Therefore, we need to layoff some of our less important workers because we won’t have to pay as many salaries and since we are doing this over the next 5 months we will be losing less money. Also, the head office insisted on the fact that we will have to cut some of the remaining employees’ hours.
2.2 Improving our image
Once again, because we are losing so many customers, we either need to attract a new range of clients or recuperate the ones we have lost by proving to them that our company has better quality products than our competition. “The Bad Company” has a better image than us, regardless of their poor quality products. We would need to hire a new temporary staff that will be willing to change our image completely. Since we will be hiring new employees, we will replace a small part of the old staff (3 to 5 percent).
2.3 Publicity
Our company will need to start new publicity campaign. Presently, “The Company” dosen’t have a wide publicity range. Only a few billboards are available, but we talked about going even deeper into the publicity world,.TV commercials and newspaper ads would be a nice start.
2.4 Lowering our prices
We also discussed lowering our prices, but only temporarily. We will start some sort of winter sale since the frosty season is only a couple of months away. This is one of the things we could incorporate in our ads since it is a good way to attract customers.
3.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
As you may have noticed, the main reason why we need to cut approximately eleven percent of workers is because “The Company” does not make enough money thus obligating us to lay off our less important workers. As we cut most of our workers, we will try to improve our sales and make more money buy starting a new publicity campaign and improving our image. We have to watch out for our competition, because they are presently higher in the business market. Finally, by lowering our prices, we might be able to win back some customers and attract new ones. Hopefully we will be able to make more money thanks to this important decision.
3.1 Another meeting will be held on Monday October 27 at 1 o’clock. We will continue discussing the subject and will finalize our decision.
Office Manager
From: Susan Dumouchel
Assistant Manager
Ref: CF/AB
Date: October 24th, 2008
REPORT ON “THE COMPANY"S OFFICE MEETING.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Since you missed the last office meeting which was held on Monday October 20, I wanted to keep you up to date by writing a short report. Many subjects were brought up, but one of them was especially important. “The Company” wants to cut 6,000 jobs over the next five months. As we discussed, many points supported this precised subject. “The Company” is losing a lot of money; therefore we have no choice but to cut our staff. Every reason for the layoffs revolves around this serious money problem.
2.0 REASONS
2.1 Competition
As you know, we have lost many customers because of “The Bad Company”. They sell almost the same merchandise as us, but at lower cost. Therefore, we need to layoff some of our less important workers because we won’t have to pay as many salaries and since we are doing this over the next 5 months we will be losing less money. Also, the head office insisted on the fact that we will have to cut some of the remaining employees’ hours.
2.2 Improving our image
Once again, because we are losing so many customers, we either need to attract a new range of clients or recuperate the ones we have lost by proving to them that our company has better quality products than our competition. “The Bad Company” has a better image than us, regardless of their poor quality products. We would need to hire a new temporary staff that will be willing to change our image completely. Since we will be hiring new employees, we will replace a small part of the old staff (3 to 5 percent).
2.3 Publicity
Our company will need to start new publicity campaign. Presently, “The Company” dosen’t have a wide publicity range. Only a few billboards are available, but we talked about going even deeper into the publicity world,.TV commercials and newspaper ads would be a nice start.
2.4 Lowering our prices
We also discussed lowering our prices, but only temporarily. We will start some sort of winter sale since the frosty season is only a couple of months away. This is one of the things we could incorporate in our ads since it is a good way to attract customers.
3.0 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
As you may have noticed, the main reason why we need to cut approximately eleven percent of workers is because “The Company” does not make enough money thus obligating us to lay off our less important workers. As we cut most of our workers, we will try to improve our sales and make more money buy starting a new publicity campaign and improving our image. We have to watch out for our competition, because they are presently higher in the business market. Finally, by lowering our prices, we might be able to win back some customers and attract new ones. Hopefully we will be able to make more money thanks to this important decision.
3.1 Another meeting will be held on Monday October 27 at 1 o’clock. We will continue discussing the subject and will finalize our decision.
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