I would more likely say that the fraction of a a standard man-day of work that is filled by an employee today is smaller than it was before. Whether the actual number of heads in the office is the same or larger, the workload has expanded greater, so there are too few heads.
Also, that's a Houston paper, and we have our own...interesting...issues in the city concerning income, unemployment, distribution of wealth, and lots and lots of really lazy people who would rather ***** than work