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Indeed, they also said that previous time off for ill health wasn't a reason either.

but looking at the number of people who had taken leave, it suggests otherwise.

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You can believe whatever conspiracy theories you want, of course, but the most straightforward explanation is that when you lay off X,000 or XX,000 people, some number of them will be on leave.
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Anything a trash company says they're not doing is an admission of guilt.
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Sure, and I have a bridge to sell you. Or alternately refer you to the inevitability of Goodhart's law.
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