Sharon Brown’s article Business Processes, highlights how America’s Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) classification system combines with an agency’s Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program to identify business processes and functions that are influenced by mass layoff. In her assessment, she argues that there various factors that cause employers to layoff or hire personnel, all connected to changing dynamics of business processes and functions. She further notes that institutions for identifying industries such as the North American Industrial Classification Systems (NAICS) and those of defining occupation such the Standard Occupational Classification System (SOCS) cannot provide a range of activities that occur in a firm (Brown 2008). Today,
