I worked for quite a few manufacturing companies, GEC, and Massey Ferguson being two.

Whenever they drafted in some highly paid analyst to reduce costs they'd invariably recommend sacking people, basically a recommendation me or you could make it's simple.
They were paid tens of thousands of pounds and always also recommended a review of productivity, this coming from a fat arsed hatchet man who'd never done anything remotely productive in their fucking life l, I was made redundant 3 times in the seventies and I despised the cunts and still get angry today thinking about them.