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...
Leadership Lessons from Redundancy: HR Insights
My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there... As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...
Balancing Redundancy Support and Cost Pressures
With 1 in 4 businesses looking at redundancies this year according to CIPD's Labour Market Outlook, HR is under pressure to do more with less in 2025, and redundancy support is becoming an essential service for businesses facing tough decisions. These are two separate...
The five key factors that drive homeworking success
Here at Chiumento we know a thing or two about homeworking success. We started talking about it as a potential future business model way back in 2010. At the time we were reviewing our property portfolio and starting to ask some serious questions about how much of our...
Toxic High Performers
Toxic high performers are individuals who deliver great results but by means that can completely undermine an organisation's culture. Over a decade ago, we developed the Chiumento Culture Matrix to help clients explore this concept and challenge their willingness to...