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...
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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...
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...
UK outplacement – how has it changed?
The UK outplacement industry traditionally had a reputation for being conservative. Has that changed? Earlier this year our Chairman, Ian Gooden, celebrated 15 years with Chiumento. We asked him to look back over that decade and a half and reflect on what's happened...
Executive career transition
Executive career transition rarely ends when a delegate receives a job offer. There's still often work to do at the end of a successful outplacement programme. Chiumento MD Mike Burgneay explains how we help individuals land successfully in new roles. The first 100...
Executive Outplacement Package: Why You Should Negotiate One
"When executives find themselves facing a settlement agreement due to a change in their employment circumstances, negotiating for an executive outplacement package should be a top priority" advises Chiumento MD Mike Burgneay. He explains: "an executive outplacement...