At your last one-on-one meeting with your boss, he discussed with you the need of the company to look at reducing the payroll in the organization by 20%. This has been instructed by the corporate office and the target is to achieve this by the third quarter. You have just started the second quarter. Basically, within 3 months. The GM goes on to indicate to you, that the best way to do this is to cut the manning within the organization by that percentage, namely 20%. You are taken aback and a little confused as at the last town hall meeting with all staff, your GM had announced to all that the company was doing well and that the revenues and profit are in line with the forecast. You say to the GM that this will not go down well with the staff and the organization as a whole. He turns around and tells you that this is your job and he wants you to get cracking on reducing the manning by 20%.
What do you do?