Streamline Your Workforce During a Pandemic | Info-Tech Research Group

Reduced infection rates in compromised areas are providing hope that these difficult times will pass. However, organizations are facing harsh realities in real time. With significant reductions in revenue, employers are facing pressure to quickly implement cost-cutting strategies, resulting in mass layoffs of valuable employees.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Employees are an organization’s greatest asset. When faced with cost-cutting pressures, look for redeployment opportunities that use talent as a resource to get through hard times before resorting to difficult layoff decisions.

Impact and Result

Make the most of your workforce in this unprecedented situation by following McLean & Company’s process to initiate redeployment efforts and reduce costs. If all else fails, follow our guidance on planning for layoffs and considerations when doing so.

Streamline Your Workforce During a Pandemic Research & Tools

1. Meet with leadership

Set a strategy with senior leadership, brainstorm underused and understaffed employee segments and departments, then determine an approach to redeployments and layoffs.

2. Plan individual and department redeployment

Collect key information, prepare and redeploy, and roll up information across the organization.

3. Plan individual and department layoffs

Plan for layoffs, execute on the layoff plan, and communicate to employees.

4. Monitor and manage departmental effectiveness

Monitor departmental performance, review organizational performance, and determine next steps.

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Guided Implementation 1: Meet with leadership

Call 1: Plan to lead the leadership conversation around affected employee segments and action planning.
Call 2: Review redeployment process for departmental and functional leaders to follow.

Guided Implementation 2: Plan individual and department redeployment

Call 1: Review high-level action plan to redeploy employees.
Call 2: Prepare communication, training, and support for redeployment

Guided Implementation 3: Plan individual and department layoffs

Call 1: Review layoff decisions and roles selected and plan for all levels of communication with effected employees.

Guided Implementation 4: Monitor and manage departmental effectiveness

Call 1: Review organizational performance and determine next steps.

Authors

Mardi Walker

Rachel Stewart

Evan Hughes

William Howard

Alyssa Lampert

Talia Speigel

Search Code: 91749
Last Revised: March 23, 2020

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