Your most important objective during any downsizing in your organization must be to treat people with respect. There are few experiences as traumatic for employees as being involved in a downsizing or reduction in force, regardless of whether you are affected directly or indirectly. Most people in the course of their adult life have lost at least one job, and it is not something they are likely to forget. In fact, we tend to remember how we were treated upon termination more vividly than anything else about the experience. Losing a job is difficult enough to handle and accept; it is even more difficult if the organization handles it in an undignified, disrespectful manner that demeans employees who have given their all to the company. ...
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