Ironically this will most probably help as most companies now understand that putting more people on the same piece of software doesn't really help but make it worse.
I hope it helps them. At my company, there were efforts to compartmentalize our web application to make it more scalable for adding more features inside it. I left before I saw this effort in action, but the principles it was based on were solid. I believe some applications could be compartmentalized so that adding more features/teams would bring more value (without making it worse) however, I might be wrong.
You still need to keep the remaining employees engaged, though.
Adding workforce is not useful != removing workforce is