The Essential Guide to Handling a Layoff

The pandemic forced a large segment of the global workforce to go through a remote-work experiment on a scale never seen before. HR & business leaders are being forced to make unprecedented decisions about whether to return to the office, make the remote work experiment a reality, or find some middle ground by blending the two. Now, both the limitations and the benefits of remote work are clearer. Despite many people returning to work as economies reopen — executives have indicated that for many employees, hybrid models of remote work are here to stay, as the “new flexible workforce” emerges.

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Can You Let Someone Go for Being a Poor Culture Fit? Hiring is incredibly stressful, from the moment you decide you need to fill a certain role until the onboarding process is complete. The biggest stressor and difficulty for hiring managers comes from trying to find the right fit candidate: someone who meshes well with the team, the company culture and has the right experience for the job; aka a good culture fit.

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Though outsourcing has become increasingly attractive, it can also elicit a range of opinions. For some, it’s become a hot-button term that conjures up images of U.S. companies looking to save money by contracting with workers in other countries for goods or services, such as IT help or customer service. But outsourcing doesn’t necessarily involve workers in foreign countries. Broadly speaking, outsourcing is a business practice in which a company contracts with a vendor that, in effect, rents its skills, know-how, technology, services and manpower to perform functions that, for a variety of reasons, the company has decided not to do in-house.

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