The Current Jobs Market and Impact on Employee Engagement It’s no secret that the UK jobs market has become increasingly unstable in recent months. With higher employer costs, an unstable economy, redundancies and hiring freezes, the morale and productivity of...
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Are Redundancy Headlines Impacting Employee Confidence?
Are redundancy headlines impacting employee confidence? In the immediate aftermath of the COVID pandemic, redundancy rates in the UK dropped to the lowest levels since records began. At the same time UK vacancy levels soared – peaking at 1.3 million open job...
Coping with Redundancy: What I’ve Learned
With 32% of UK businesses in 2025 planning to reduce headcount either through redundancies or by recruiting fewer staff, the number of people coping with redundancy and the need for redundancy support has never been more pressing. (CIPD, Labour Market Outlook) We...
Leadership Lessons from Redundancy: HR Insights
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...
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...
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...