Where I used to work numbers come up when people are being laid-off and generally words of encouragement and support appear in the hiring of new people. This relates somewhat to how low-grade managers and institutional types distance themselves use the abstraction of numbers to be inhuman.
That said, when losing your job here, the term often used is “being made redundant” which is so disrespectful even the most evil number person would shy from applying it to a fellow human. When the usual and frequent educational budget cuts took my job away I made it necessary for the rats to fire me early. Better than ‘redundant’.