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 Free Layoff Prevention Tool for Human Resource Managers

Human Resource managers in corporations, and local and state governments across the nation, are under pressure to conduct mass layoffs. The end result will be millions more unemployed American workers in 2009.  Which will then result in negative consumer confidence and less consumption, lower profits and tax revenue, and the need for further layoffs.  Layoffs create a vicious downward economic spiral into self annihilation.  They harm the individual, organization, and the economy.

How can layoffs be prevented?  Retirement.  Corporations and governments should be retiring not firing their workers.  Retirement benefits the individual, organization, and the economy.  Retiring instead of firing workers, still results in a smaller workforce and lower overall compensation costs without all the negative consequences of layoffs.   Retiring instead of firing workers boosts moral within the organization, increases worker productivity, and creates new opportunities for advancement.  It also helps the economy, which in the end, returns the favor by helping the organization become more profitable.

Retirement is always a better alternative to layoffs.  But how can Human Resource managers create an effective early retirement program?  The traditional method of creating early retirement programs, is to offer employees, regardless of their ability to retire the same voluntary early retirement packages.  This approach, depending on the size of the voluntary early retirement package, can be effective but very costly.  And many employees, unsure if the severance package will actually allow them to retire, hesitate in accepting the offer of early retirement.

However, their is a new alternative to the traditional early retirement approach, that helps organizations identify employees that are already in a position to retire,  and enables organizations to develop more effective voluntary early retirement packages.  And it is free!

Due to the rapidly deteriorating economic situation, Green Retirement LLC is offering human resource managers our Free Layoff Prevention Tool, to encourage corporations and governments to choose retirement instead of layoffs.  Using this simple Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, human resource managers will be able to quickly determine, which of their employees are in a position to retire.  Human resource managers will also be able to see how many employees are close to retirement, in dollars and percentage, enabling them to easily design an effective voluntary early retirement package.  Employees, knowing that they will be able to safely and securely retire, will more enthusiastically accept their employers package.

Human resource managers can download the Free Layoff Prevention Tool, on the Green Retirement website, where they can also download the ready-to-use Employee Retirement Survey (to collect the necessary data) and a how to guide.  All of this is free, in an attempt by Green Retirement LLC., to help the economy avoid entering into a depression.

If you are a human resources manager, please visit the Green Retirement Website, and download the Free Layoff Prevention Tool.  You can prevent layoffs, and it is in your interest to do so, because the next job you cut – may be your own.