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Redundancy strategy

Redundancy Checklist

The Redundancy Checklist – a guide for HR managers and employers is intended as a good practice guide for making redundancies.

It recommends a series of steps to ensure the process is carefully and efficiently managed.

Manager telling employee their role is redundant in a notification meeting

Redundancy notification meetings

Telling staff their roles are redundant will never be an easy process. With forward planning and care, however, you can increase effectiveness when making redundancies and minimise costs to both your organisation and the exiting employee.

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Envelopes for strategic redundancies

Strategic redundancy process

Rather than a random cull, ensure your organisation’s redundancy process is strategic and above board. Employees should know they haven’t just drawn the short-straw. This article provides advice to guide you in the strategic redundancy process.

3 stages of successful redundancy process

The three stages of a successful redundancy process

The process of deciding to make redundancies, complying with relevant legislation, managing the employee transition and developing and implementing a communication strategy to maintain workplace morale and retain corporate reputation can be a difficult challenge for organisations to manage.

Company rebuilding after redundancies

Rebuilding after redundancies

A major restructure involves the difficult challenge of deciding which roles to let go. Your decision-making should first be guided by considerations such as impact, legal liability and fairness. Once those criteria have been applied, you need to be more strategic to retain the skills required for ongoing success.

How to help staff after redundancies

How to help remaining staff following redundancies

‘Survivor syndrome’ describes the physical and psychological impact of redundancies on the remaining staff who didn’t lose their jobs. A lot depends on the individual, but those who remain often encounter one – or several – of the following emotions.

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Time reductions won’t save your business

To avoid having to make roles redundant, you may be considering time reductions to deal with the downturn. But across the board cuts in employees’ hours may not be the best solution for your organisation.

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Ways to limit risk when making redundancies

Making redundancies brings a number of risks that should be identified and managed to minimise the potential for long-term damage.

Don't do this if managing a redundancy process

Five things NOT to do if you’re forced to downsize

The sad fact is that your organisation may have little choice at the moment but to reduce workforce numbers. If times are tight, you must reduce your business costs or the whole organisation will go under. Here are five suggestions for what NOT to do when managing a redundancy process.

HR telling employee their role is redundant

How to tell someone their role is redundant

Those tasked with telling someone their role is redundant can suffer too, and often in isolation. Making roles redundant is about more than change management and correct procedures.

Employment contracts

Enforcable non-compete clauses in employment contracts

It is commonly believed that non-compete clauses cannot be enforced as they run contrary to the public policy of providing a sufficient and trained labour force. However there are ways of wording non-compete and other restraint clauses to protect your business.

Outplacement advice

Woman offers outplacement as part of your Employee Value Proposition

Outplacement as part of your Employee Value Proposition

Including outplacement as part of your employee value proposition (EVP) is a great way to highlight to future employees how well you look after your people, even during the most challenging times.

Outplacement helps job search more than EAP

The best redundancy support: EAP or outplacement?

Employee assistance programs (EAPs) have become somewhat of a workplace panacea. This can lead to an expectation on EAPs to provide whatever the client requests. This includes specialist outplacement services following redundancies.

How to choose the right outplacement provider from a selection of people

How to select an outplacement provider

Supporting transitioning staff with outplacement services is a worthwhile strategy. If you choose wisely, you will maximise the return on investment for both your organisation and former employees receiving the service.

Executive outplacement programs ideal for this senior man

Executive outplacement for extended transitions

Executives can face a highly competitive marketplace full of of competing candidates, limited opportunities and an employer’s market, and a job search lasting 12 months or longer.

Outplacement helps career development like a leaf becomes a tree

Outplacement for career development

Outplacement can do more than help people move smoothly into a new job. It can also be an opportunity for professional assessment and career development, and can even be a chance to consider alternative options.

What is outplacement? Consultant explains meaning

Outplacement questions to ask providers

We’ve developed some answers to the most frequently asked questions we receive.

How much do outplacement services cost?

How much do outplacement services cost?

The cost of outplacement services usually varies depending on a company’s specific requirements and the needs of impacted employees.

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Redundancy and outplacement myths busted

Some facts about career transition and redundancy are hard to dispute. When it comes to outplacement myths, however, there are a few that are much easier to challenge.

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Why accept outplacement support?

Your former employer may have offered you outplacement support. What is it, and why should you accept it?

People getting benefits of outplacement

Benefits of outplacement for job searching

Why bother with outplacement services? Research shows the many benefits of outplacement.

Group workshop shows outplacement works

Outplacement works if you make the effort

An outplacement consultant’s role is to help you find a new job more quickly than if you searched for a job by yourself.  Outplacement works. And the harder you work at it, the sooner you will get positive results.

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Outplacement help at any job search stage

Accepting outplacement help can benefit you at every stage of a job search. From coping with change to assessing your options, writing a resume and right through to negotiating a job offer.

Success stories

How outplacement services helped Jamie find new job after redundancy

How outplacement services helped me find a new job

We spoke to James, a recent participant on our career transition program, about how outplacement services helped him find a new job.

Case studies

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