As someone in HR, do you find that other employees are trying to avoid you these days? Maybe it’s because HR is often the bearer of bad news — such as layoffs — in a tight economy.

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Tags: bearer of bad news, layoffs, things not to say, tight economy, top 10

When a company is forced to make layoffs, how do the remaining employees pick up the duties performed by departed workers? An office in Colorado came up with an idea, but we wouldn’t recommend it.

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Tags: dealing with staff cuts, layoffs, phones

More employers are choosing to cut employees’ hours — and pay — instead of letting workers go in layoffs.

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Tags: cut hours, furlough, layoffs

If your company gave employees a choice which would they choose: Take a one-week, unpaid furlough or take a chance on getting laid off?

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Tags: furloughs, Gannett, layoffs

“Don’t become the story,” is a warning often given to reporters by their managers and editors. But in Ketzel Levine’s case, she couldn’t avoid it.

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Tags: layoffs, NPR, tough economic times

HR pros across the country are coming up with some creative plans to deal with the ongoing recession when upper management wants cuts in payroll.

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Tags: layoffs, pay cut, recession, unpaid leave

It’s often HR’s job to make sure notifying employees about layoffs goes as smoothly as possible. A Web site has been collecting stories about when that wasn’t the case.

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Tags: firings, Gawker, layoffs

Most HR pros have handled difficult layoffs or firings — but have you ever had to fire Santa?

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If you ever find, as an HR pro, that you have to send an unfortunate e-mail to senior management about upcoming layoffs, you might want to double, triple and quadruple check the “to” field on the message.

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Tags: e-mail, layoffs, restructuring

Nobody in HR likes to oversee layoffs — there are all sorts of negatives associated with them. But a North Carolina newspaper probably didn’t expect this outcome.

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Tags: cutting staff, layoffs, newspaper