By offering careers and outplacement support to departing employees helps both the employee and the employer. It is often viewed as part of a responsible workforce strategy rather than just a severance add-on.
These are some of the main reasons organisations provide these services:
1. Protects employer reputation
How an organisation handles layoffs or restructuring strongly affects its brand. By providing support to departing employees signals the organization treats people fairly and professionally, which matters to:
Companies known for respectful exits tend to maintain stronger long-term reputations.
2. Reduces legal and reputational risk
Employees who feel abandoned or mistreated after termination are more likely to:
Careers and outplacement services can reduce tension by showing goodwill and practical support.
3. Helps redundant employees land a job faster
Career transition support typically includes:
This can shorten unemployment periods and improve outcomes for affected employees.
4. Maintains morale among remaining staff
Layoffs often create anxiety, guilt, and distrust among employees who stay. Those emloyees who ‘survive’ a restructure can see departing colleagues treated with dignity and this can help preserve:
By not providing careers and outplacement support programmes to departing employees it can hurt organizational performance.
5. Supports organizational values and culture
Many companies emphasize values like respect, empathy, and people first leadership. Through providing careers and outplacement services will make those values tangible during challenging moments.
Most employees will remember how they were treated when they left the organisation for years, and former colleagues often become:
6. Helps during restructuring and transformation
During mergers, automation / AI, downsizing, or strategic shifts, through providing careers and outplacement services this can make workforce changes smoother and less disruptive.
7. Strengthens talent attraction
Candidates increasingly evaluate how employers treat people during hard times, not just good times. A reputation for humane exits can improve recruitment and competitiveness.
Some organizations even publicise alumni support programmes as part of their employer brand.
We offer the following:
We offer a number of outplacement packages which be view at redundancy.
If you are making employees redundant or you are an individual interested in finding out more about our careers and outplacement services please contact Alistair Stirling. You can email me at info@stirlingcareersconsultancy.co.uk
We look forward to hearing from you.
