A subtle form of workplace hostility? EA professionals can encourage employers to adopt a beneficent approach to mass layoffs and avoid the long-term scars caused by "show-them-the-door" tactics

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of layoffs and the number of individuals affected by dint of them have increased more than 50 percent above the past eight years, to more than 1 million "initial claimants for unemployment" through year. (1) Given the dramatic increase in layoffs, it makes faculty of perception to examine whether a rule of termination that has become for the use of all practice (and is perhaps well intended) may be discriminatory and perhaps a cunning form of hostile behavior upon the part of the employer

While not all employer implement what I call the "show-them-the door" process of termination, the ...