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...
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...
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...
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...
How the 2025 Jobs Market Makes Outplacement Support Essential
What’s the outlook if you find yourself unexpectedly a jobseeker in 2025, needing outplacement support? It hardly seems like 5 minutes ago we were talking about there being over a million job vacancies in the UK. Vacancies peaked at over 1.3 million in April...
Navigating Redundancies: A Guide for HR Leaders
Redundancies are one of the most challenging tasks HR professionals face. The emotional and logistical weight of navigating this difficult process can feel overwhelming. As an HR leader, you’re not just managing the process—you’re managing the emotional well-being of...