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career employment ‘80s Brain Drain Haunts

Today’s Offshore Layoffs

Companies struggle to balance cost-cutting with skills retention.

By Patricia Keefe f you can’t accept the rollercoaster of employment that is the were cited as the top reason behind job losses. Bad as it is, the offshore industry, adding and shedding jobs like clockwork current downturn is nothing like what happened in the 1980’s through its cyclical ups and downs, don’t get on for the ride. – at least not yet, says Gladney Darroh, CEO of Piper Mor-

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That cold bucket of reality is repeated like a mantra across gan Associates Personnel, energy staf