Outplacement Costs: How to Budget for Support People Will Actually Use
One of the first questions HR teams often ask when they’re considering outplacement support is: how much does it cost?
Financial Wellbeing During Redundancy: What HR Leaders Need to Consider
Financial wellbeing during redundancy has a direct impact on employee mental health. HR teams can make a meaningful difference by signposting support and creating safe conversations – without giving financial advice.
How to Support Employees Through Redundancy When Outplacement Isn’t Available
Even without outplacement, HR teams can support employees through redundancy with practical, in-house support and clear boundaries.
Redundancy and Menopause in the Workplace: What Every HR Leader Needs to Know
When redundancy and menopause collide, the impact on women can be profound. In a recent Redundancy Matters podcast, executive coach and menopause consultant Angela Wilkins-Green shared her insights into how organisations can better support women navigating these two major life transitions – often at the same time.
HR and Change Management: Stop Pretending Change is Smooth
When Eleanor Tweddell was made redundant from a job she loved at Vodafone, she didn’t expect it to transform how she understood change. Eight years on, she’s a coach, author and change consultant who’s learned something most of us in HR are getting wrong.
Building a Fair Redundancy Process: Why Equality Impact Assessments Matter
When redundancies are planned, there’s often an assumption that applying the same process to everyone automatically makes it fair. But as Victoria Dale, founder of Inclusion 365, explains, creating a truly fair redundancy process requires much more intentional planning and consideration of how different groups might be affected.
When Redundancy and Retirement Collide: Why Proper Planning Makes All the Difference
“Oh, don’t worry about so-and-so, they’ll just retire.”
It’s a phrase that comes up time and again when HR professionals are managing redundancies. The assumption is simple: older employees won’t need support because retirement is somehow the easy option.
Outplacement Benefits: How to get senior buy-in for outplacement support during redundancies
Outplacement support is expensive and exclusive; or at least that’s what many senior leaders think. Yet outplacement services can offer advice and guidance to anyone in your business. And, done well, they can have unexpected benefits for your company’s reputation, engagement and performance. All you need to do is get your senior team to buy-in to the idea.
Leaving with dignity: how outplacement helps shape a positive exit
Whenever you start a redundancy programme, it’s easy to focus on the process. Have you got the business case written? Are the letters prepared and calculations drafted? Does the manager know how to approach the meetings? You make sure you’re following all the technical steps, but the key to a ‘better’ redundancy procedure is treating people with dignity and respect.
Outplacement Benefits: 8 Reasons to invest in Outplacement Support
Outplacement Support is more than just a nice thing to do for people. There are sound business reasons for doing the right thing and offering a best practice conclusion to redundancies.