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dead wood
Definition
Workers in an organization or company that have been there so long that they are no longer effective and/or no longer care about their position and services they produce.
Context : Business Category: Idiom Semantic: apathy, lazy
Usage of “dead wood”
The RIF will get rid of the dead wood.
Our organization will be more efficient after getting rid of the dead wood.
Examples of idiom “dead wood” from Twitter
robbcox:@beclavelle I love when I tweet something like that, i always lose a cpl of lame followers.. Haha Im glad to be rid of the dead wood :)
pbpositive:@ViewFromEngland could work but risky - would force economies and cut out all that dead wood, and fat salaries, but would quality remain?
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lijo_antony:
RT @itsjeevs: :P bold!! RT: @wickedsyam: Wah! RT @ameenmaj: RT @chrony: Talented men leave your organization. dead wood doesn't-Azim Premji, CEO - Wipro