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...
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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...
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...
How to improve employee retention in 2025?
How to improve talent retention has quietly become one of the toughest challenges for businesses right now. It’s no longer enough to just find good people; you’ve got to find ways to keep them. And in this rapidly changing and uncertain world, that’s not always easy. ...
How to Retain Executive Talent During Organisational Change
How to retain executive talent during organisational change? Organisational change is a given. Whether it’s restructuring, leadership transition, or strategic pivots. For senior leaders, it’s rarely the disruption itself that creates risk — it’s how that disruption...
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...
Helping organisations through change
Helping organisations through change is a core part of Chiumento's mission. We are undoubtedly best known as an outplacement business. However it would be wrong to think we only get involved in the final stages of change programmes. We support our clients in many...