“ Positive outcomes of outplacement services:
• Reduced distress, angst and disappointment in transitioning employees;
• Continued engagement of outgoing employees;
• Increased confidence in employees’ ability to smoothly and quickly transition to next role;
• A positive attitude change towards transitioning out and finding new employment;
• Significantly improved ability for employee to gain new employment quickly;
• Increased employee self-confidence with regard to the future;
• Increased goodwill between organisation and outgoing employees;
• Reassurance for remaining employees that exiting staff were being supported and assisted in the transition;
• Improved ability for remaining employees to maintain focus at work and remain productive.”
Why Provide Outplacement? Bill Satterlee, April 9, 2009:
“ The benefits of Outplacement far outweigh the cost of implementing a quality program. Outplacement is the most important severance benefit, both to the employee and to the company. While dollars can help an employee to survive financially during the transition, Outplacement enables the employee to make that transition more quickly and successfully.
For the company, Outplacement not only provides benefits that cannot be purchased in other ways, but saves resources that may otherwise be expended on legal and organizational problems which tend to arise when Outplacement is not provided. Following are the primary benefits to the company in providing Outplacement to employees who are terminated for organizational and / or economic reasons.”
Outplacement Supports Corporate Values
Most organizations have core values that state how important their employees are. More and more data support the link between values-driven organizations and long-term profitability. Outplacement service demonstrates that your core values are more than a platitude – even when you have to take the difficult step of letting someone go.