redundancy handling and considering alternatives

Redundancy Handling is used by many businesses as part of a painful but what seems to be an essential strategy to cut costs or bring about critical change in the organization.

Today's sophisticated society must however acknowledge the social damage and skill waste that redundancy causes and indeed recognize that if we continue to trade as we do, and treat employees as we have in the past, then the future will always have to deal with the 'R' word and our communities and people will continue to be wasted - perhaps unnecessarily. It is not surprising that in any economic downturn the first cost-cutting option that may be considered is to make redundancies. Staff costs are often the highest single outgoing and therefore the first target for cutting.