Chiumento Blog for People Leaders and HR Professionals
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The five key factors that drive homeworking success
Here at Chiumento we know a thing or two about homeworking success. We started talking about it as a potential future business model way back in 2010. At the time we were reviewing our property portfolio and starting to ask some serious questions about how much of our...
Affordable volume outplacement
Making volume outplacement affordable has always been a challenge. We understand that when making volume redundancies, the cost of quality outplacement can seem prohibitive. With many traditional individual programmes starting at over £1,000 per person or more the...
Job search – is it getting tougher out there?
How hard is job search in the Autumn of 2023? One of the early questions our delegates usually ask us is: how long will it take to find another job? And honestly there's no simple answer. There are too many variables. From where you live and what you do to what...
Offering outplacement is an investment
Offering outplacement to staff impacted by redundancy might at first seem an odd decision. Why invest in those leaving the organisation? Especially if the whole point of the reorganisation is to save money. In my first proper HR job, I remember being invited by the...
Work-life balance – why trust is a key ingredient
Work-life balance is a much-used phrase. However what does it really mean? Let me say up-front I have never really liked the term. Let me explain why. Too often I find people use work-life balance to describe an idealistic world where there are hard boundaries between...
The five key factors that drive homeworking success
Here at Chiumento we know a thing or two about homeworking success. We started talking about it as a potential future business model way back in 2010. At the time we were reviewing our property portfolio and starting to ask some serious questions about how much of our...
Affordable volume outplacement
Making volume outplacement affordable has always been a challenge. We understand that when making volume redundancies, the cost of quality outplacement can seem prohibitive. With many traditional individual programmes starting at over £1,000 per person or more the...
Job search – is it getting tougher out there?
How hard is job search in the Autumn of 2023? One of the early questions our delegates usually ask us is: how long will it take to find another job? And honestly there's no simple answer. There are too many variables. From where you live and what you do to what...
Offering outplacement is an investment
Offering outplacement to staff impacted by redundancy might at first seem an odd decision. Why invest in those leaving the organisation? Especially if the whole point of the reorganisation is to save money. In my first proper HR job, I remember being invited by the...
Work-life balance – why trust is a key ingredient
Work-life balance is a much-used phrase. However what does it really mean? Let me say up-front I have never really liked the term. Let me explain why. Too often I find people use work-life balance to describe an idealistic world where there are hard boundaries between...