Furloughs - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2020
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How to Make Furloughs More Humane

15 Apr 2020
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How to manage Slack and email for laid-off and furloughed workers

20 Jan 2022
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Three Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

17 Apr 2020
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Your boss said, ‘You’re furloughed.’ What does that mean exactly?

03 Dec 2016
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Help Wanted: More Jobs for America

10 Aug 2020
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At Home, Workers Seek Alternative Credentials

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

wrong. That gave us a lot of clarity. And even as we did some very tough things. So we had to furlough close to 37,000 people. We had to suspend all non-essential expenditure. We had to cut salaries 50 percent, 25 percent, all the way... View Details

19 Nov 2020
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How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain

Photo courtesy of Panera Bread Photo courtesy of Panera Bread As the CEO of Panera Bread Co, Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) was intent on finding ways to make sure the company’s workers weren’t left behind during the pandemic. The company invited its View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

17 Dec 2015
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Examining Global Workforce Management

in Brazil. Furloughs as an alternative to layoffs are used less frequently in the United States than in the rest of the world. Sucher’s case on Honeywell reveals how the firm—the only one of its US peers to use View Details

04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour

pitch what we’re doing, it makes sense to them,” observes Morris. Not only with companies, he says, but also with former employees who may have lost jobs or been placed on furlough and, through Syrg, are able now to make use of their... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

written numerous cases on other companies that have forged a new path for workforce management, such as Honeywell, which chose to institute furloughs during the 2008 recession instead of layoffs, and Nokia, which built its Bridge program... View Details

Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

districts. Teacher layoffs were also on the table: The number, initially set at 89, was whittled down to 51; after months of debate and conflict with local teacher unions (there are two in Scranton), 16 teachers would be furloughed in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

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