Alternatives to Firing Employees

Cost-cutting is an essential component of survival.
Companies are looking to save money, and cutting salaries yields larger savings. Restructuring correctly is not an easy task, nor a decision to be taken lightly.

Before you start firing employees, here are three alternatives to consider:

1. Automate decision making and manual tasks

Workflow software automates employee tasks, enabling relocation of employee resources from their current jobs to jobs that need manual intervention, thus making the employee's contribution to the company more efficient.

2. Make existing employees more efficient.

Your goal is making employees work smarter, faster, more consistently and with more focus on value creation.
• If organizational changes cause employees to find themselves less effective - retrain and relocate them.
• Automating and improving internal business processes increases efficiency, productivity, and operational visibility facilitating better utilization of available human resources.

3. Re-evaluate employees that don't contribute

• Look for the person who is invisible and flies under the radar
• Look for the person who never says anything
• Look for the person that has others doing his tasks
• Look for the person that has survived because of their social skills, not their productive skills.
• Look for the person whose work quality is never above mediocre

Talk to these employees, explain your concerns. Get their approval to be moved to another group in the organization for a trial period. Enable them to "start a new page".

Moving these employees from their current group to another group causes vacuums in the organization, leaving opportunities for existing employees to grow and show their worth.

Your employees are the ones that ultimately deliver customer satisfaction and create value in your business.

Let business improvement initiatives lead your people to be creative, and supply them positive feedback.

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