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The HR Headache of Making People Redundant
For the first time in 20 years, many businesses are finding themselves with a new HR headache – letting people go, rather than struggling to hire enough of them. For many managers making people redundant is a new and unwelcome experience – almost as emotionally difficult for the manager as the employee. In smaller businesses without an HR department to undertake the task for them, managing redundancies can be even harder.

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Living a Life of Voluntary Simplicity
We've all heard of "simple living," and we see the magazines and the news articles and the web sites. I often advocate what I call "voluntary simplicity," by which I mean determining what's important to you and designing a life in support of your values and beliefs.
Franchise Industry Reaches out to Veterans
The VetFran program is for our glorious soldiers who are looking forward to a healthy civil life. The participation is voluntary and the member businesses offer various discounts to the prospective franchisees. It is one of the most popular programs of IFA.
Is Redundancy a Risk
Companies often re-evaluate their business structure, downsizing and streamlining to make cost savings. The bi-product of these corporate decisions can often unfortunately be redundancies.
Support for Businesses and Their Staff in Times of Redundancy
A shift in the economic or business climate, a merger or a relocation can lead toe redundancies. A whisper of the word itself can send shockwaves throughout the department and even whole company. Staff will inevitably worry about their future employment status, and communication handled ineffectively will likely damage overall morale.

Taking control of your IT&T career - June 2004
Implementing a successful career management strategy in the IT&T industry has been anything but easy in the last few years. Changing market conditions, mergers, acquisitions, redundancies, retrenchments, and pay reductions have become the common mantra.
Alternatives to redundancies have benefits
The overall cost with redundancies is far more than just the initial redundancy pay an employee receives. You will need to add costs for the recruitment when you require staff again and the cost of training new recruits to have them reach the development stage your redundant staff were at prior to being made redundant. How do you place a cost on this? Then there are the negatives that come from any business making redundancies which includes low morale within the workforce which inevitably reduces production, performance and service. Good quality staff can leave for alternative employment due to the uncertainty which may happen after you have reduced to the number of staff you felt appropriate as they have been offered employment from interviews taken during the redundancy process. What is the cost of this?

Changing Your Life - Transition is Either Voluntary Or Involuntary
You may be changing careers, going back to school, or going back to an old familiar career that you've been away from for a while. Your transition may be voluntary or involuntary and either provides similar feelings of stress and uncertainty.

Self-Determination/Self-Affirming Beliefs
Free will is "the power or discretion to choose; free choice." It is the belief that man's choices ultimately are or can be voluntary, not determined by external causes.

Flexibility---Increasingly Important Benefit
New study finds that the stronger the culture of flexibility, the lower the voluntary turnover rate.
Six Solution Steps to Employee Retention
What's your organization's turnover or churn rate? Has it increased over the last 18 months? If you are like 40% of firms surveyed, you too have noticed a significant up tick in voluntary resignations.

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