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.”