Workforce Change

This research encompasses layoffs, furloughs and restructuring, global practices that affect millions of employees and thousands of companies every year. In this work I aim to replace bad practice that damages trust with good (or at least better) practice through cases, notes and articles such as “Layoffs That Don’t Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Change,” (HBR 2018) and “How to Make Furloughs More Humane,” (HBR Digital 2020).

This research aims to identify best practices in managing workforce change and retention, looking at a set of forward-looking companies that are inventing strong and sustainable bridges between today’s realities and the future world of work.