I may be a little hazy on numbers...and that wouldn’t just be CM, but an approximation of the total number of staff that we “lost” over the years in various initiatives that still go on to this day.
i take your point about budget shifting and spin-offs to other companies, as well as the self employed contractors that came back on hundreds a day for a while.
As for the sensitive readers among us, I wouldn’t take it personally. We are all just a number at the end of the day. Once our usefulness to the company is finished, we are all shown the door. I don’t think anybody is under any illusions what kind of company we work for.