“If we allow people to opt in, it's almost like we're shifting the responsibility, saying we didn't pick you, you picked to be unemployed.”
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In a Marketplace report on voluntary buyouts versus forced layoffs, Chinzer, an organizational management professor, describes how voluntary layoffs change how employees and employers feel about job cuts. The line explains why companies prefer buyouts.
And I did not get selected until I was finally in a small office where there were only four of us physically there in a building or a section that held 160 people.
Yeah, the vibes were weird. But Chinzer, who's a professor of organizational management at the University of Guelph near Toronto, says when voluntary layoffs are executed thoughtfully, everyone feels a little less bad.
If we allow people to opt in, it's almost like we're shifting the responsibility, saying we didn't pick you, you picked to be unemployed.
Letting employees choose their fate comes with some risks, though. Anthony Nyberg is a management professor at the University of South Carolina. If you offer it, you give up a little bit of control over who's taking it. Those who can actually go out and find something else to do might be more…
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