If Layoffs Become Necessary, Here’s How to Handle Them Compassionately

In her column for Forbes , BCG’s Julia Dhar shares how companies can approach layoffs and downsizing with compassion. “Layoffs and downsizing are a messy, but sometimes absolutely necessary, business. No leader relishes them,” Dhar writes. “If you must let people go, explain why, offer a helping hand, and show them—and the ‘survivors,’ to use an overused word—that you care.”