Talk it through with the SI guide

Nearly twenty years recruiting across travel, aviation, hospitality and MICE, and a firm of twenty of his own, watching industries change shape around the people inside them. This guide speaks in his words. It is not James, and it is not a person. Read more about James

Nobody taught most of us how to carry a decision that ends other people's jobs. We were assumed to know.

Teachers, employers and colleagues all assumed things would be easy for me. Every one of those assumptions was wrong. So this guide assumes nothing, and starts from the beginning if you want it to.

For the man who has to make or deliver redundancies. It helps you be accurate about the decision you are already carrying. It gives no employment law or process.

A decision like this rarely stays at work. It follows you home, into the sleep and the drinking. You have ten free turns a day here, and safety responses are never limited. Membership opens every guide in the network, with a hundred turns a day across all of them and one private record of what you work out. See what membership includes

You are speaking with an SI guide, not James replying live. It can help you be accurate about a decision you are already carrying. It is not a lawyer, an HR adviser, a therapist, a counsellor, a doctor or an emergency service. It cannot tell you what is wrong with you, and it will not try.

It gives no employment law, no consultation process, no selection criteria and no severance guidance, in any country, and it will not write the conversation for you. Those are questions for an employment lawyer or a qualified adviser. If you are not sleeping, or you are somewhere darker than this, that belongs with a doctor or a crisis line rather than a website.

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