Recession, expectations, and other gifts for this Year

We have not yet begun the year and are almost without realizing economic truce with the sword of Damocles: The BBC published an article about the recession in USA which does not quite know whether to laugh or mourn. In recent months, ordinary people have not known with certainty whether it was going terribly wrong, if we go on vacation or buy prawns for Christmas, judging by the queues in the supermarket, all who were able to be have opted for the consumption side spent with them. However, those who still have doubts about what to expect, having access to this article: “The U.S. recession has already arrived.”

It goes well. Merrill Lynch says that USA-and we know about the U.S. sneezing and the global cold-and has spent his first month of recession confirmed. Not only has come, the phrase that stands out is that “the recession is already part of everyday life.” Dan chills. Thank goodness that has come his way which is supposed to decide formally how things are: the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Where appropriate, the phrase that highlights the news is “I think right now we are not in a recession, but I think we run a serious risk of worse things that can happen and a real fall.” (Instead, it appears that ) but after all what does it matter? This man has felt bad that someone is ahead in the formal prediction … The fact is that in a couple of weeks we will have again a crowd of employees worldwide fearing for their jobs.

It seems that USA has already experienced this kind of falls eleven times since the Second World War, we have some widely known in recent times. Recessions are followed restructuring, if we look at the expert studies and Wayne Cascio, more and more irrational and radical. An excellent study published in Castilian in Revista de Empresa, “Strategies for responsible restructuring”, demonstrates how devastating that companies resort to layoffs to offset recessions do not have better corporate results in the medium term.

But besides that fact that executives should consider, at this particular time there is a new paradox: the famous battle for talent should be a halt to the layoffs. There are many studies indicating that the priorities of the executives are the retention and talent development. Does it make sense rid of employees when the labor market has no demand? How will you resolve this contradiction from the world of business, especially in times of corporate social responsibility fashion? It will be interesting to follow, those who know examples of companies that address these situations from a consideration of the employee to say it loudly, please. To improve the expectations, nothing better than concrete examples.