Tag Archives: Cost-Cutting

You wouldn’t want the cheapest recruiting any more than you’d want discount brain surgery. Because recruiting produces the highest ROI of any HR function. It’s an area you should invest in, rather than one where you randomly cut costs. And because this CPH metric is so effective at encouraging cost-cutting, …

As more corporations mimic Trump’s management style, many corporate jobs will be impacted.  Yes, even before the new administration formally takes over. Some corporations have already begun shifting their dominant management style away from a somewhat woke approach and more towards the management style that has been successfully used for …

Shareholders should be outraged when their execs use broad layoffs, which have a painfully low ROI. In fact, along with M&A actions, a large-scale layoff may have the most disruptive business impacts of all talent actions. So as an alternative, I recommend a “gradual and surgical release” alternative approach, which …