Article: After the layoff: how are you feeling? Human resource professionals lavish so much attention on employees during layoffs that they sometimes forget to care for themselves.(Employee Relations)

Every HR professional has a story to tell about a layoff. Good ones, bad ones and truly heartbreaking ones. Conducting layoffs has become just another part of HR professionals' jobs, although not the best part. Veterans say it never gets easy to stand in front of a group of employees or look someone in the eye and say, "We have to let you go."

In these dour economic times, you may have just said those words--or may need to in the near future. In July, employers took 1,512 mass layoff actions, resulting in 151,171 separations. The January-to-July layoff figures in 2008 were the highest since 2003, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor ...

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