Firing Employees - Alternative

Cost-cutting is an essential component of survival.
Companies are looking to save money, and cutting salaries yields larger savings. Restructuring correctly is not an easy task, nor a decision to be taken lightly.

Before you start firing employees, here are three alternatives to consider:

1. Automate decision making and manual tasks

Workflow software automates employee tasks enabling to relocate employee resources from their current jobs to jobs that need manual intervention, thus releasing workloads and making the employee's contribution to the company more efficient.

2. Make existing employees more efficient.

Your goal is making employees work smarter, faster, more consistently and with more focus on value creation.

• If organizational changes cause employees to find themselves less effective - retrain and relocate them.
• Automating and improving internal business processes increases efficiency, productivity, and operational visibility facilitating better utilization of available human resources.

3. Re-evaluate employees that don't contribute

• Look for the person who is invisible and flies under the radar
• Look for the person who never says anything
• Look for the person that has others doing his tasks
• Look for the person that has survived because of their social skills, not their productive skills.
• Look for the person that their work quality is never above mediocre

Talk to these employees, explain your concerns. Get their approval to be moved to another group in the organisation for a trail period. Enable them to "start a new page".
Moving these employees from their current group to another group causes vacuums in the organization, leaving opportunities for existing employees to grow and show their worth.

Your employees are the ones that ultimately deliver customer satisfaction and create value in your business.

About PNMsoft

PNMsoft was founded in 1996 by experts in human workflow processes and specializes in Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow Automation solutions for business users. The company is a multi-national enterprise with its headquarters in the UK, the R&D centre in Israel and a global network of business partners and associated offices.

PNMsoft is noted for looking beyond pure software issues, towards concerns such as customization and fast ROI.
The company has forged close and long-standing partner relationships, particularly with Microsoft, which has appointed it a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. PNMsoft is also a member of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance.

About SEQUENCE

SEQUENCE is an intuitive BPM software suite based on a graphical flowchart-based platform. It contains powerful options to give users great flexibility in taking an existing business process and converting it from a manual flow to an automated flow.
SEQUENCE provides a full end-to-end BPM solution that includes exploring, modeling, simulation, execution, integration, monitoring and optimization functions.

For more about our BPM software, contact us or request our white paper