The request is approved or rejected by a vice president (for large request), a manager (for medium sized request), or by purchasing (for small requests).

“All large technical firms are facing similar issues, where a large part of the population is eligible to retire,” said Rick Stephens, senior vice-president of human resources at Boeing.

There are few absolutes in this section; often you will hear that a certain operation is great under large tables but horrible for small ones or vice-versa.