Workforce Transition

Over half of all companies that implement reductions in workforce never see a positive impact on the bottom line. Leathers Milligan-OI Partners consultants can help you consider all of the options that may help you actually realize the cost savings you had hoped to achieve from a workforce reduction while allowing you to keep your workforce and their know-how intact. And, with over 200 worldwide offices we have the footprint to help your employees in transition around the globe.

Sometimes a reduction in workforce is necessary and unavoidable, but a poorly planned or mishandled workforce transition process, whether 1 person or 1,000, can have devastating and lasting effects on the organization; litigation costs will escalate, productivity will decrease and voluntary turnover will increase. It will be harder to attract top talent and your brand can be badly damaged. Leathers Milligan-OI Partners can help to mitigate these effects by reviewing the demographics of employees selected to be included in your workforce transition plan, assisting with severance package design, helping craft internal and external event communications, preparing the message to be delivered to terminating employees, planning the event day, training the people who will deliver termination notices and providing on-site support to help ease terminated employees into transition. And, our consultants can work with you and your front line managers after the workforce transition event to help the organization adapt to a post workforce reduction environment and avoid the losses of productivity and increases in voluntary turnover that so often are the unintended consequences of a reduction in workforce. Your company will be judged not on having done what is “legal,” but rather on the perception of how “fairly” it has treated its terminated people through the workforce transition process. Leathers Milligan-OI Partners consultants help assure that perception is positive.