Over 75% of companies use outplacement services because of the outstanding benefits it provides including productivity, profits, staff morale, and improvements in their organization's image
Positively impact your company's bottom line. As an employer budgeting for outplacement as part of the separation package makes good business sense. It is as essential as offering some form of severance, and can directly impact the bottom line. It decreases the amount of time workers obtain unemployment pay, and reduces potential lawsuits.
Save your company's reputation and public image. A quality companies' reputation can easily be tarnished, and the value of being viewed as a good place to work is vitally important, as is the image presented to shareholders, customers, and vendors. Outplacement helps promote the company's image as respectable, and decreases the cost of turnover among remaining employees. Providing outplacement demonstrates to the community that the company values its human capital.
Lower your risk of negative legal action. Everyone knows it, angry people sue. Offering outplacement can diminish the resentment, hurt and anger many laid off workers feel. By offering a structure that is focused on moving onward, workers have less time to focus on negative thoughts about the company and its perceived treatment of them.
Help retain remaining employees and their productivity. Most employees who remain after downsizing can't help but think it could have been me. Downsizing creates a disruption in business, as remaining workers theorize and worry about the impact on their own lives. Providing a solid outplacement plan can put negative energy to a screeching halt and provide reassurance to the remaining staff.
Preserve the dignity of your displaced workers. Self esteem can be preserved by knowing that the company has provided a free and valuable service to assist them become reemployed quickly. Armed with the tools, displaced employees become motivated to enter a job search campaign with confidence. Studies have shown that out placed employees find work quicker, and often even at a higher salary when they have the benefit of career transition services. Most displaced workers are weak in the skills needed to aggressively look for work. Career transition workshops are reality based and give displaced employees the self esteem and skills needed to become reemployed quickly.
Advanced Network Information offers Career Continuance Workshops that are reality-based workshops designed to address:
Whether you've had to layoff employees before, or this is a new challenge for you, our expertise can and will help you get it right the first time.
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