Limit your schedule, whether that means eliminating your favorite TV show or cutting back on a few social events, and put the extra time into job hunting.

Provincial environmental agencies quickly followed suit, cutting the allotted time limit to review environmental impact assessments from the maximum 60 days to as few as five days in one province.

“Around 90% of the productivity growth in corporate America has come from cost-cutting, and that is now reaching its limit, ” says Carsten Stendevad of Citigroup’s corporate-advisory arm.