Redundancy and Outplacement
When you develop and carry out a redundancy programme, there is more at stake than claims of unfair dismissal. Your remaining staff will be watching closely, working out where their loyalties lie, examining their motivations and even deciding whether to take their skills elsewhere.
At Work Horizons we provide redundancy and outplacement support that help you remain true to your values and culture, while protecting you from legal action and enabling you to retain a loyal and motivated workforce.
Our highly experienced experts will provide tailored support to help you create a robust, compassionate and suitably structured redundancy programme. With our innovative, online career coaching platform and virtual reality technologies we can also provide affordable outplacement support that is 100% online or blending online with traditional one-to-one coaching.
When redundancies become inevitable, the first priority is to develop a legally compliant and fair process. Our experts will work out the best approach for your situation and write a full and detailed process including all the paperwork and templates that you need. In particular we will help you create robust selection criteria that ensure you retain all your key people.
Our experienced team is available to walk you through every step of the process, supporting you with selection of individuals to be laid off and preparing line managers for the conversations and consultations that must be held.
Through our experience, expertise and compassion we will help you minimise the impact of redundancies on the individuals concerned, on their colleagues who remain and on the business as a whole.
Innovative outplacement solutions
Work Horizons provides tailored, affordable outplacement packages, centred around a membership website with high quality content, supporting career planning and job hunting. Individuals can watch videos, read articles and complete worksheets, progressing at their own speed and focusing on what concerns them most. We also offer the option of virtual reality interview practice with feedback using artificial intelligence. Depending on your budget and the needs of the individuals, our network of career coaches can provide packages of one-to-one coaching and support, online or face to face.
With Work Horizons outplacement packages, your outgoing staff are supported with:
- Review and assessment of the role that they have been doing
- Exploration of what they want and need from a new job
- Personal branding and online presence
- Building relationships with good agencies
- Creating a CV
- Sourcing vacancies
- Preparing for interviews
- Assessing a potential job and accepting an offer
- Dealing with rejection
- Exploring ideas for self-employment
Next steps
If you would like to discuss any of these issues further or are interested in working with the Work Horizons team, please read about our services or get in touch.
