As is standard. My recommendation to anyone that works in a corporate environment is that if you want to know whether the company will be at risk of layoffs in the future, become good friends with someone in sales. When the sales leads and activity start to drop (or growth rate starts to slow), you can usually be assured that layoffs will eventually follow. In my experience the sales folks were always the first to clean up their resumes and start the job hunt because they knew what was coming.