http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/11/06/unpaid_time_off/ All about the issues that arise when workforce issues converge with business management. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:06:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/11/06/unpaid_time_off/#comment-30456 Marsha Keeffer Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:03:49 +0000 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2008/11/06/unpaid_time_off/#comment-30456 This is a painful choice for employers to make. Their business is at risk if they don't keep their workforce, yet revenues don't support maintaining the number of people they employ at present. This is a good solution and it spreads the pain equally. Packaging people out is a more traditional way of handling it, but I think in this environment companies have to get creative and find ways to cut down on payroll expense without losing people entirely. Another way to do the same thing is put people on 3 or 4-day workweeks and make the pay match it. Again, frustrating and painful but hopefully something that would keep people. This is a painful choice for employers to make. Their business is at risk if they don’t keep their workforce, yet revenues don’t support maintaining the number of people they employ at present. This is a good solution and it spreads the pain equally. Packaging people out is a more traditional way of handling it, but I think in this environment companies have to get creative and find ways to cut down on payroll expense without losing people entirely. Another way to do the same thing is put people on 3 or 4-day workweeks and make the pay match it. Again, frustrating and painful but hopefully something that would keep people.

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