Quick Summary Choosing the right outplacement provider means looking beyond price and promises. The best providers offer individual 1-to-1 coaching, consistent quality across every site and level, emotional as well as practical support, and a simple...
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Outplacement for Large Organisations: A 2026 Guide
The UK is facing the highest wave of redundancies since the pandemic. According to the CIPD (2025), one in four employers ran a redundancy programme last year - and one in four expect to make further cuts in the next three months. For HR Leaders managing this at...
Why Outplacement is Important During Organisational Redesign
Quick Summary: Why does AI-driven redundancy carry greater reputational risk than crisis-driven restructuring? What does the current labour market mean for employees you exit today? Why is outplacement support important during restructuring and how do you get...
Career Coaching for Employees: A Practical Guide for Organisations
Quick Summary Career coaching for employees helps re-engage stuck talent by creating clarity, direction and ownership, reducing disengagement and turnover risk. Organisations use career coaching to improve retention, internal mobility and succession planning,...
What Is Executive Outplacement? A Guide for Employers and Senior Leaders
What is Executive Outplacement? Executive outplacement is a specialised form of outplacement designed to support senior leaders who are leaving an organisation through redundancy or negotiated exit. For employers, executive outplacement helps manage...
Employee retention: the top four reasons people stay
Employee retention is high up the HR agenda in many organisations right now. Skill shortages mean recruiting replacements is time-consuming and expensive. If you can even find the cabndidates. Over 30 years we've talked to thousands of individuals about their careers...
Are the rose-coloured glasses starting to slip?
Over the past month I’ve seen and read, what appears to be, an increasing number of articles covering the more negative aspects of home/hybrid working. Now we’ve passed the 2-year anniversary of the big move to a more home/remote based working model are the...
Are homeworkers healthier?
I’ve just been reading an article from a US magazine that reports how sick leave amongst homeworkers appears to be 70% lower than for their office-based equivalents. As with all data, I think that raw statistic poses more questions than it provides answers. What it...
Boomerang Hires: Get Them Back…
How you exit people can be as important to your talent strategy and employer brand as how you onboard them. Done well it can pay big dividends – encouraging people to return in the future and in the meantime act as advocates in the jobs market. I remember writing an...