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...
Why Outplacement Services in the UK Must Evolve in a Tougher Labour Market
Quick Summary A tougher labour market: With vacancies falling and competition for roles rising in 2025, displaced employees face longer, more complex job searches than in recent years. Outplacement under pressure: Traditional, light-touch outplacement models no...
Does Internal Mobility Start with Better Conversations?
One of the most common reasons people give for leaving their jobs, according to our exit interview data, is that employees feel their career aspirations have fallen off line with their employers. Whatever your people may say to you, the most common reason people are...
How the 2025 Job Market Makes Outplacement Support Essential
What’s the outlook if you find yourself unexpectedly a jobseeker in 2025, needing outplacement support? It hardly seems like 5 minutes ago we were talking about there being over a million job vacancies in the UK. Vacancies peaked at over 1.3 million in April...
Happiness at Work Index
Our research into happiness at work makes for largely optimistic reading. On the whole, British workers are fairly or very happy at work. But why should business care if its workers are happy? And what do we mean by ‘happy’? Happiness is a Serious Business...