You're going to have do layoffs at some point in the future – it's a reality.
In 2001, you delivered the news with compassion, took the time necessary and then went through the Exiting Employee Checklist. You probably thought about who you needed to talk to in some order – by most difficul
t first, who you had to get out of the building, etc.
Read the whole post over at Kris Dunn's The HR Capitalist (an FOT contributor blog).
Kris Dunn is a Partner and CHRO at Kinetix, a national RPO firm for growth companies headquartered in Atlanta. He’s also the founder Fistful of Talent (founded in 2008) and The HR Capitalist (2007) – and has written over 70 feature columns at Workforce Management magazine. Prior to his investment at Kinetix, Kris served in HR leadership roles at DAXKO, Charter and Cingular. In his spare time, KD hits the road as a speaker and gives the world what it needs – pop culture references linked to Human Capital street smarts.