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(uncountable, idiomatic, management) Personnel no longer contributing to an organization. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood.

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dead wood

Noun

idiomatic uncountable

Japanese Meaning

組織内で機能しておらず、貢献していない従業員や人材を指す（比喩的表現）

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The manager decided to restructure the team and politely let go of the dead wood to improve productivity.

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マネージャーは生産性を高めるためにチームを再編し、組織に貢献しなくなった人員を穏やかに解雇する決断をした。

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(uncountable, idiomatic, management) Personnel no longer contributing to an organization.

Everybody knows that when you have a layoff, you use it as chance to get rid of the people you wanted to get rid of anyway, but couldn't document or hadn't bothered documenting as bad employees […] . If you don't have much dead wood, you hope they make you use a seniority list, because then you can say it's out of your control.

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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood.

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