South Carolina is facing budget cuts. The number of employees needs to be reduced over the next three years at all state agencies. The state decides to stop hiring new employees to fill vacated positions to comply with budgetary constraints. This approach is called

This approach is called attrition.

Explanation:

Attrition is the process of reducing the workforce of the company due to various reasons. Here South Carolina has lot of budget constraints which forces the state to reduce the in take of new employees. This approach can also be called as hiring freeze so that the payroll can be reduced instead of doing layoffs.

The strength of the state is reduced in order to reduce the expenses and money pay outs. When there is a deficiency in the budgets actions have to be taken accordingly to minimize the effects.

the answer is a. $209,000

i might look it up later.