The businesses I work with are all re-thinking their strategies to one extent or another. Several have lost business volume, in some cases dramatically, since the bust of fall 2008, and have downsized and restructured in an effort to reduce costs and stay solvent. Some have implemented new resource-planning and management tools, reduced headcount, opened new lines of business, etc. all at the same time. Some operations have been idled or sold off.
The result of the current mess: many folks still in the lifeboat are doing more work than before, with fewer resources. Shifting (or sagging) market conditions require many to take on different tasks, perhaps without adequate training (as training budgets have been cut). While they are employed — for now — they carry around active concern for their own job.