Redundancy Policy Survey - Sample

2009 Report

The Redundancy Policy Survey Report begins with a summary of the survey results, highlighting the main findings and showing trends based on comparisons with previous surveys.

Examples of summary pages from this year’s report are:

Outplacement

53% of companies offer outplacement services as part of their redundancy policies.  (See page 29)

• This is down from 70% in 2007, 69% in 2003 and was 62% in 2001.

The survey results are then covered in full, with each topic including graphs, analysis and comments made by participants where appropriate.

Typical pages are:

Reasons for Redundancies

Many of the companies gave reasons for their redundancies.  An analysis of the responses is as follows:

Redundancy due to:

Company restructuring	62 companies (57.4%)
Departmental/role restructuring	36 companies (33.3%)
Downturn in business/sales	43 companies (39.8%)
Company acquisition/merger	11 companies (10.2%)
Company relocation	6 companies ( 5.6%)
Technological changes	7 companies ( 6.5%)
Other	12 companies (11.1%)

 

1. Transferring some activities to Shared Services abroad.
2. Work transferring to Asia.
3. We have ceased manufacturing on our site and a recent acquisition has resulted in some re-structuring.
4. Change in method of working to replenish stock at branches. Etc.

Type of Outplacement Offered
                                              
The companies offering outplacement services were asked what help is given.  The responses are as follows:

Assistance with CVs	72 companies (91.1%)
Interview preparations	71 companies (89.9%)
Assistance with job searches	63 companies (79.7%)
Career planning/counselling	62 companies (78.5%)
Admin support	25 companies (31.6%)
Financial planning	24 companies (30.4%)
Retraining	19 companies (24.1%)

 

Policy documents supplied by participants are collated in an appendix to the report, and the full list of participants is also included.