Cost cutting is such a weird thing as it is often so superficially measured.
I worked at a company that slowly but surely cut travel options in order to limit travel costs.
Except for the sales group.... the group the traveled the most.
After a couple quarters they hilariously sent out an email noting that travel costs were not going down fast enough, insinuated that people weren't watching their expenses close enough, and if everyone didn't do a better job that they'd have to limit the sales travel budget too.
I suspect the person who sent the email couldn't / didn't think critically about what message they sent everyone else in the company. Needless to say the costs didn't drop.
Even more amusing they decided that car rentals were too expensive, so they banned car rentals (but not for sales). I was to take a taxi or public transit wherever I went. The results was that it cost about 3x as much in local travel costs when I traveled. I actually accounted for it all, wrote up a report with charts about how a car saves the company money on my trips. I was told not to tell the travel team anymore as their management didn't want to hear it.
I worked at a company that slowly but surely cut travel options in order to limit travel costs.
Except for the sales group.... the group the traveled the most.
After a couple quarters they hilariously sent out an email noting that travel costs were not going down fast enough, insinuated that people weren't watching their expenses close enough, and if everyone didn't do a better job that they'd have to limit the sales travel budget too.
I suspect the person who sent the email couldn't / didn't think critically about what message they sent everyone else in the company. Needless to say the costs didn't drop.
Even more amusing they decided that car rentals were too expensive, so they banned car rentals (but not for sales). I was to take a taxi or public transit wherever I went. The results was that it cost about 3x as much in local travel costs when I traveled. I actually accounted for it all, wrote up a report with charts about how a car saves the company money on my trips. I was told not to tell the travel team anymore as their management didn't want to hear it.