This Week’s Feature
Employee Outplacement: 6 Reasons it Belongs on Your Layoff Checklist
Explore the advantages of promoting employee outplacement services to your departing team members. Employee Outplacement is an Essential Component of Your Layoff Checklist As your organization gears up for layoffs, preparing your layoff checklist and…
Outplacement What is a RIF?
While some layoffs are temporary, a reduction in force (RIF) is a permanent layoff or an elimination of jobs. RIFs are caused by changes in business strategy, budget cuts, or mergers and acquisitions. Each year,…
Outplacement Save Your Brand after a RIF!
Your brand reputation is critical these days. As Dan Coffey, Outplacement Practice Leader at IMPACT Group, puts it, “Building an employment brand has become highly important in today’s economy. When an employee is deciding if…
Outplacement Severance Packages: Best Practices for Employee Exits
A severance package is the combined pay, services and benefits employers sometimes offer employees upon termination. HR leaders look at multiple factors when severing ties with employees and offering severance packages. It’s important to know…
Outplacement How a Reduction in Force (RIF) Effects Your Employer Brand
A reduction in force – and the benefits you offer separated employees – have a major effect on your employer brand. In our online world, company practices and corporate culture are on display for all…
Outplacement Next Steps to Avoid Survivor Syndrome
Assess each employee’s readiness for change after a layoff Leading change management can be taxing after a major workforce disruption like a layoff or merger. As a manager, you are vital in helping your remaining…
Outplacement “I’m Paying It Forward”: Mariano’s Story
“My experience was very positive from the moment I first connected with Regina, my career coach,” says Mariano Garcia. “She immediately helped me with the emotional piece of my job loss. I had a fear…
Outplacement How to Lay Off Employees: 8 New Rules of Compassion
In today’s economy, HR leaders must know how to lay off employees with compassion and professionalism. Layoff talk has been in the news for years now. From January through April of 2023, job cuts increased…