When you have to let people recede,give as much notice as possible and don’t sound like you’re reading off a script HR sent you 15 minutes agoWhen Gary Davis (not his genuine name) was made redundant final year from his job at Wolverhampton city council after a decade, it was the worst day of his life. “Months of dread were replaced with anxiety about the future and everything just felt grey and hopeless, or ” he says. Naturally,your first thoughts in these kinds of situations are not with the person sat on the other side of the desk. But making redundancies is a thankless responsibility for someone to bear, and one that managers in local government will face with greater frequency.
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Source: theguardian.com