one in five is two decimations!! 

I hope I'm the first person to mention it!!! 


jeesh get over it people.

As long as one of the pink slipped is named "JERRY YANG" , there will be a modicum of fairness in the firings.

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Maybe someone should mention that a decimation is 1/10 and half would be 1/20...

I'm pretty sure no one's mentioned this yet...

1/20...

Half a decimation would be one in twenty.
1 in 5 would be twice a decimation.

It is twice a decimation.

1/5 = 2/10 which is twice 1/10.

One in five as opposed to one in ten would be twice a decimation, not half.

Wouldn't 1-in-5 be twice a decimation rather than half of one?

One in five employees is the same as two in ten employees. That's the same as two decimations conducted at the same time, not half a decimation, as claimed in the article.

Wouldn't 1 in 5 be 2 times a decimation?

I think you mean twice a decimation, since one in five is twice as many people as one in ten.

One-in-five is TWO decimations, not half a decimation. It's double the number of people who would go with a decimation.

"According to Silicon Alley Insider the figure will be about one in five employees which is about half a decimation."