• Some Ways to Avoid Using the Word Firing

    by  • 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

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