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The Layoff Letter Blueprint: 10 Ways to Write A Polite Layoff Email to Employees

HR Digest

You want to inform the employee that they are being laid off due to reasons such as company restructuring or budget cuts. This could include severance packages, job search assistance, or career counseling services. Layoff due to restructuring. The tone of the layoff letter should be respectful and professional.

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HR Trends of 2024 Help Ensure HR Does Not Become Obsolete

HR Digest

If your initial reaction is to feel overwhelmed by these updates, then consider the role of an average employee who is more likely to be replaced more permanently through job cuts and organizational restructuring efforts. You might be able to help both the employees and yourself find some balance by fully understanding the role of HR.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design. The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago.

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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers

Harvard Business Review

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. ” He would later call this the most important insight of his career. But Stayer wasn’t happy. Everything, he had resolved, had to change.