While reductions-in-force (RIFs), layoffs, and furloughs are all difficult actions employers take out of necessity based on business performance or shifting priorities, there are differences between them (in addition to terminations based on individual performance or...
Giving bad news is never easy. However, for business leaders and HR professionals, effectively delivering tough news to your workforce is a part of the job. And there is perhaps no harder news to give than that of layoffs. We’ve seen a lot of headline layoffs this...
One of the reasons employee terminations can feel difficult to manage is that the process has so many steps to keep track of. From putting together a severance package to collecting key cards, an employee termination requires a lot of work and attention to detail from...
Many leaders think of outplacement as a service that benefits employees leaving the organization. After all, outplacement—also known as career transition support—is generally given to workers who have been laid off to help them land new jobs more quickly and easily....
After graduating from California State University, Long Beach in 2018, Jarick Simbol knew he wanted to work in film. He had majored in the subject, after all, specializing in video editing and spending the bulk of his free time in college working on smaller...