Patricia Wheatley Burt’s Blog - Vital tips for cutting costs and handling staff expectations

Vital tips for cutting costs and handling staff expectations
Thursday 14 May 2009 by Patricia Wheatley Burt (FCIPD)

OK, if some organisations ‘fessed-up’, the first tranche of redundancies have included people who: weren’t performing; didn’t fit culturally; were too challenging; were too demanding; due to retire; didn’t have a clearly defined brief/job; and so on. In fact, the process was designed to test the water, show willingness to address problems and to cut costs – often driven by finance demanding an instant alleviation of fixed overheads. And you managed to keep the number of lay-offs below the magic 20, or 100 – to avoid the legal requirement of a one- or three-month consultation period, but will this…

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