My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there... As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...
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Finding the Right Balance: Redundancy Support and Cost Pressures
With 1 in 4 businesses looking at redundancies this year according to CIPD's Labour Market Outlook, HR is under pressure to do more with less in 2025, and redundancy support is becoming an essential service for businesses facing tough decisions. These are two separate...
Making a Business Case for Volume Outplacement
Making a business case for outplacement—especially at scale—can be challenging, even for the most experienced HR leaders. But with redundancy intentions for UK firms at their highest in over 10 years, the need to support employees through transition has never been...
What Are Stay Interviews? Understand in Under 5 Minutes
Stay interviews are often seen as the opposite of exit interviews, which focus on why an employee is leaving. But let’s take a closer look. What are stay interviews? What Are Stay Interviews? A stay interview is a proactive conversation—typically...
4 Ways Stay Interviews Improve Retention and Reduce Turnover
With the rising turnover rates, companies cannot afford to ignore how stay interviews improve retention. In December of last year, we saw the worrying figure of nearly one quarter (23%) of workers in the UK planning to leave their jobs within the short term – a 3%...
3 reasons to outsource your exit interviews
Exit interviews – we’ve all had one at some point in our careers. Usually conducted in the few days before you leave by your line manager, or perhaps a member of the HR team. An awkward conversation where you skirt around the real issue behind your departure and roll...
What’s love got to do with it?
If there's one factor in the Chiumento employee retention model that raises eyebrows it's Love. On the surface that might sound a bit "soft and fluffy" but in reality, it's often the glue that holds individuals and organisations together. Work isn't just about the...
Exit interviews – are they secret to improving your retention.
If the number of ‘I’ve got a new job' announcements I’m seeing on LinkedIn are anything to go by. Then the much-anticipated great resignation wave is real, and it is well and truly underway. But I wonder, how many of those recent leavers were given an exit interview,...
3 things you need to do now to improve retention
Retention is the hot topic at the moment, the great resignation wave is underway and understandably organisations are trying their best to hold on to their employees. However, with retention, there is no true quick fix. Yes, you could double everyone’s salaries, but...
3 reasons why you should offer outplacement to departing staff
Offering outplacement to those staff impacted by redundancy isn’t just the right or nice thing to do, it also has many benefits for the organisation as a whole. While there are many more reasons than the three we mention below, these are what we consider our top...