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to restaff

to restaff

7.0
Move current employees to different jobs or teams without hiring new people
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈstæf/
translation icon : redistribuir
  • The company decided to restaff the IT department to improve collaboration among team members.

Examples

  • After the raid, Jones said, the university was forced to "rebuild everything" from class curriculum to restaffing employees.

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  • After reviewing the project, the manager chose to restaff the sales team for better efficiency.

  • In light of recent changes, the organization will restaff its marketing team to meet new demands.

Synonyms

to reassign
vsto restaff
74 4.1

Move a person to a different job or place of work within a company

moves groups of existing employees without adding new hires
to reorchestrate
vsto restaff
7.5

To change how tasks and people work together in a project

focuses on moving existing employees into different roles

How Extensive

reshuffle
2 5.3
to restaff
7.0
to reassign
74 4.1
to transfer
528 2.7

Surface Forms

restaff infinitive
restaffed past
restaffed past participle
restaffing present participle
restaffs third person singular

Morphology

restaff = staff (semi-transparent) = re + staff

The form suggests 'staff again', but the specific HR sense of reallocating existing employees is narrower than the basic compositional meaning.

Etymology

Restaff combines re- meaning 'again' and staff meaning 'a group of workers', so it can also mean to 'arrange the staff again' without hiring new people. So, to restaff a team is to move current employees into new jobs or roles to meet the work needs.