Jobs have been lost

‘Jobs have been lost,’ reports the media as another company ‘rationalizes’ its workforce. Seems rather careless to ‘lose’ so many jobs. With the passive voice and the no-fault connotation of ‘lost’, the phrase deliberately obscures the responsibility of those making firing decisions. Entrepreneurs boast of ‘job creation’ in the good times; here it is more accurate to talk of job destruction.

Report claiming jobs have been ‘lost’ as a consquence of the recession and new technology

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