Termination

Research on downsizing, gender, and race.

Employers have a rare opportunity to recruit from the ranks of the world’s leading digital companies.

Six strategies to help you deliver bad news compassionately.

Especially if you have to deliver the news remotely.

Leaders who admit their mistakes put their companies' values into action.

When you strip away the fancy jargon, a successful business fundamentally makes more money than it spends. While managers can pull any number of levers...

Here’s a brief update on some research we’ve been doing on layoff practices. For a decade we tracked who was likely to be fired in Europe during an economic downturn. Surprisingly, it was not generally the least productive managers. Over 40% of European managers said they would layoff an older manager even if that manager […]

In this tight labor market, cost cutting is out. Championing employee concerns is in.

What’s foremost in people’s minds these days? Whether or not they’ll be laid off. What’s foremost in the minds of a growing number of managers? How do you lay people off? As the exasperated protagonist says in the current Harvard Business Review Case Study, “Why aren’t layoffs taught as a subject at business school?” Download […]

Gender norms make unemployment an unequal burden among heterosexual couples in the U.S.

Tyler Smith, the founder and CEO of the enterprise software firm Puck.io, is facing a hard decision. Just three months earlier the company laid off 20%...

An interview with former VICE Media chief people officer Daisy Auger-Domínguez.

The CEO of a fictional pharmaceutical marketing company in India has positioned the company as the ethical alternative to its competitors, going as far...

New research suggests you can predict who'll be on it.

As a tech employee, Vivek Gulati has navigated multiple layoffs. Here’s what he’s learned.

The first article of this series reported that, traditionally, European firms fire employees by expense categories-the most expensive first, followed...

If Astrigo Holdings is to remain competitive, 10% of its workforce must be cut. Who goes, and who stays?

Five strategies to confront your fears productively.

With practice, you can deliver difficult news effectively and compassionately.

Letting people go is an emotional event — not just for those being laid off but for those who remain. Of course those who are let go need help with the transition to new employment. But the employees who survive the cutbacks also need reassurance about their own future — and an understanding of the […]