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Lucent had too many workers when I worked there. They had people who just attended meetings all day.

Where were you, on the assembly line?

Meetings are basic communication tool. The trick is to make them productive.

Presumably, when you layoff 70% of your workforce you have done away with most of your dead wood and well into cutting away at your core abilities. This company and perhaps the industry is simply being put out of business. That is not good for the Telecoms or for the US, since it reflects the deep downturn in US economic activity.

If you think your stock is underperforming at 35,000 employees, you are going to be thrilled when the company drops to zero employees.

I disagree about most metings.

I have worked 15 years on the shop floor/machine maintenance and also 7 years as a designer/Engineer.

Most meetings I attended were simple things that one person with authority should have decided upon on the floor or on the drafting board, not in a 30 minute meeting where people not even involved in the manufacturing process have input that has to be refuted politely or risk losing employment for telling that idiot they are an idiot.

I would rather work under a leader than a manager.