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Health Benefit Costs—Fly in the Ointment of Flexible Alternatives to Layoffs

Since February, 2008 when I first encouraged companies to consider using flexibility—reduced schedules, furloughs, sabbaticals, additional unpaid vacation days, job sharing and contract-based work—as an alternative to layoffs, ...READ»

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Yes, Layoffs Cost More than Regular Turnover and Save Less than the Flexible Alternatives

Monday, during an interview on Public Radio International's The Takeaway, I discussed flexible alternatives to minimize layoffs because, the research shows, managers may think that firing someone who makes $50,000 a year ...READ»