FOR COMPANIES

Care for employees at every stage of the employee’s life cycle—and thus for redundancies—should be moved to the forefront of human resource management. Corporate governance demonstrates social responsibility in specific situations. The way enterprises approach redundancies and dismissals, affects how employees understand their job loss responsibility and the reasons for unemployment. Outplacement can therefore positively influence the responses of redundant employees.

Outplacement programs are extremely important not only for employees who have been dismissed, but also for those remaining employees and for the organization:

Dismissed employees – benefits:

• Better chances of re-employment than those who have received little or no support
• Maintaining positive relationships with a former employer

Remaining employees and organization – benefits:

• Stabilisation of the atmosphere within the company – outplacing minimizes potential organizational disruption and loss of morale as result of dismissals. This can result in the improvement of employee retention.
• Building a reputation as being a socially sustainable company
• Dismissed employees can become a direct customer of the company in the future being aware of its products and service quality

Research conducted among employees of enterprises in the Slovak Republic has shown that:

• Most employees are interested in benefitting from outplacement programs in enterprises.
• Employees of enterprises perceive the potential usability of outplacement programs strongly.
• Employees who have previously been made redundant are more interested in outplacement programs.
• Redundancies are a very sensitive and unpleasant matter and mostly uncomfortable and frustrating for all stakeholders, dismissed employees themselves and their colleagues but also their superiors.

This confirms the usefulness of outplacement services and indicates urgent need of outplacement implementation.*

Why outplacement with Lifework?

• High quality outplacement
  The essence of our approach is active support of client throughout the job-search process. We bear the responsibility of full use of available outplacement tools.
• Reverse Headhunting
  We focus on Reverse Headhunting as the fastest way of finding out hidden job market opportunities.
• Predictable and clear outplacement service
  You know exactly from the beginning, what is included in the service, time range of each service and corresponding costs.

*Adapted from:
Gyurák Babeľová, Z.; Stareček, A.; Cagáňová, D.; Fero, M.; Čambál, M. Perceived Serviceability of Outplacement Programs as a Part of Sustainable Human Resource Management. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4748. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11174748