( YRWC ) Yellow Roadway Corp. a transportation company , is going to layoff " a couple hundred " employees . Ouch . It 's getting tougher all the time in the transportation sector .
According to the above context, choose the best option to answer the following question.
Question: What could be a possible reason that this company needs to lay off this number of employees ?
Options:
- This sector is seeing less business and needs less manpower as an unfortunate result
 - None of the above choices .
 - The Yellow Railroad Company is choosing to fire female employees and prefers men
 - The Yellow Railroad Company is planning to merge with Amtrak , so they do n't need their own employees anymore


This sector is seeing less business and needs less manpower as an unfortunate result