Business Link How to Avoid Redundancies | House Building Staff Cuts
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How to Avoid Redundancies:
As demand for services is reduced, businesses face difficult decisions in order to ensure their survival. They need to look at ways to safeguard precious cash flow and tighten their belts. This also means they need to restructure to new models that are better suited to the new economic demands.
Redundancies, although sometimes unavoidable, are an unpleasant and emotional experience for both employers and employees. Small or large Companies face these decisions, Housebuilder Barratt cut its staff by 29% during the last six months of 2008 during an ‘intensely difficult’ period. (BBC article)
To avoid redundancy there are positive and effective solutions that can be taken by employers. A few are outlined in the Business Link website (also including offers of alternative work and improving performance).