The Journal found about 50 companies that directly addressed head count in their remarks.
But its total head count might not shrink, because it is hiring in other areas, like technology.
He said the company will continue to invest "aggressively, " particularly in increasing its head count this year.
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And perhaps not surprisingly, only 19% reported increasing their head count, down from 22% six months earlier.
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It's on track to double its head count to 20, 000 from 10, 000 at the end of last year.
Facebook has about 500 employees but plans to double its head count by the end of the year.
If presidents were elected by acreage rather than by head count, Republicans would win national elections by landslides.
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But perhaps a head count is not the best way to measure importance.
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Now American companies have bounced back to account for 60% of our revenue, and we are furiously adding head count.
Eisenberg was missing from his room during a head count Sunday afternoon at the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester.
Merck is reducing head count across the board, but Loescher believes he can get more return out of who's left.
For example, with 6% inflation and 3% natural wastage, in five years the government head count will be cut by 15%.
When Pandit achieves his targeted 300, 000 employee head count, the total jobs lost from Citi's peak head count will amount to 20%.
Even worse, only 29% expect to add jobs compared to 34% who expect to reduce head count in the next six months.
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The government head count grew by 13% in the decade to 2009.
It means the host needs a definite head count for the planned event, and needs it by the date specified on the invitation.
On it are compiled dozens of financial metrics, like cash position, production, orders, head count, and, most important, retail sales and wholesale shipments.
Infy responded by cutting its head count and shifting some of its strategy to other markets outside of its core, such as business processing.
The previous head count revealed that at the start of the century fewer than half of India's households owned a bicycle, television or toilet.
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The public-sector head count has grown by over a tenth in the past decade, and as many as 400, 000 jobs may have to go.
His backup plan, if he can't split his firm, is to keep his head count low or to invest in machinery that would replace workers.
It's an astonishing achievement by any standards, but Kepler's enduring legacy may be much more profound that its contribution to a simple head count of exoplanets.
The company's head count has gone from 12, 300 in 2002 to 19, 600 in 2004, and it was up to 20, 267 at the end of the first quarter.
Gordon, who became president in January 2004 and chief executive that July, gradually chopped head count by 16% to 675, cut redundant departments and embraced the Internet.
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Coburn notes that the company added a net 7, 100 employees in the latest quarter, bringing hires for the year over 14, 000, and total head count to 1118, 000.
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As the overall head count is cut by 1% a year, some departments are being told to cut staff faster, so that these three departments can increase numbers.
Google, which grew from 3, 000 employees at the end of 2004 to more than 10, 000 at the end of last year, intends to double its head count in 2007.
The style with which it established its European operations, with a lavish head count and high editorial costs, was indicative of the confidence felt by many new economy firms.
Humberside Police employs 1, 868 police officers, 1, 683 police staff, 286 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and 345 special constables (the head count was valid as of 31 July, 2012).
From talking with dozens of firms she concluded that the most useful driver would be the idea of reducing head count in the back office if firms can reduce head count.
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