Some Ways to Avoid Using the Word Firing
by admin • December 2, 2011 • On Culture
Kudos to James Kennedy, publisher of Executive Recruiter News, for this list of many terms you can use instead of that dread word, firing.
- Asked to resign
- Axed
- Canned
- Career assessment and re-employment
- Career transition
- Chemistry change
- Coerced transition
- Decruited
- Degrowing
- Dehiring
- Deployment
- Deselected
- Destaffing
- Discharged
- Dismissal
- Displacement
- Downsizing
- Excessed
- Executive culling
- Force reduction
- Fumigation
- Indefinite idling
- Involuntary separation
- Let go
- Negotiated departure
- Outplacement
- Personnel surplus reduction
- Position elimination
- Premature retirement
- Redeployment
- Redirected
- Requested departure
- RIF: Reduction in force
- Right-sizing
- Sacked
- Selected out
- Selectively separated
- Skill mix adjustment
- Termination
- Transitioned
- Vocational relocation
- Workforce adjustment
- Workforce imbalance correction