[michaelt]

The ideal situation is to be in a growing company, and to move employees from shrinking areas into growing areas.

For example, if the company needs 8 fewer people to install and set up servers, but 10 more people to work on robust automated code deployments to support business growth, and both jobs need Unix skills.

Hence, the setting-up-servers department budget shows cost savings, the overall technology budget grows by 2 employees instead of by 10, and business growth means overall profit increases.