Layoffs Done Wrong Are a Strategic Failure - Weekly Downloads with Rob & Aparna
The impact of layoffs is massive - ranging from survivor guilt, to brand destruction, and the hidden costs of RIFs is something most organizations leave out of their stoplight charts.
Every layoff has a visible cost and an invisible one.
The visible cost is severance. The invisible cost is everything that happens after - the 40% productivity drop among survivors, the employer brand that takes three years to recover, the strategic planning capability you just fired out the door.
This session is about doing the hardest thing in business with more precision and more humanity - not because it's nice, but because the alternative is expensive.
We'll cover the link between compensation decisions and layoffs, how to think about workforce planning as a long-term strategic function rather than a reactive cost-cutting lever, and what it actually looks like to conduct a reduction in force in a way that preserves some dignity - both for the people leaving and the people staying.
You'll leave with:
A framework for linking strategic planning to hiring and firing decisions before you're in crisis
A checklist for RIF communications that reduce survivor guilt and stabilize productivity
The data on what layoffs actually cost — the numbers that don't make it into the board presentation
Who this is for: Workforce planners, strategic planning leads, CHROs, and any operator who's been through a RIF and knows something went wrong.