Covid has had a significant impact on when, where and how we work.  As the restrictions start to ease businesses are faced with making decisions regarding the transition back to the workplace and dealing with the longer term implications of the pandemic. Over the last year businesses have attempted to minimise the impact of Covid by utilising furlough, flexible furlough, reduced working hours and cutting discretionary spend – but the unfortunate reality is that many business owners will now be facing into implementing redundancy processes to address the loss in business and the need to reduce salary costs.

No one takes this step lightly and as HR professionals, our role is to design and implement these processes as fairly and