TITLE:
Workplace Management Lessons on Employee Recruitment Challenges, Furloughs, and Layoffs during the Covid-19 Pandemic
AUTHORS:
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba
KEYWORDS:
Covid-19, Layoffs, Recruitment, Compassion Fatigue, Pandemic Stress Impact
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.10 No.1,
March
3,
2022
ABSTRACT: The required quarantine and closure of thousands of public and private
sector workplaces due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has changed jobs and
life for millions of people around the globe due to layoffs and furloughs, along with certain management practices and
strategies to keep workers coming to work and keeping them safe. Because
of the required quarantine mandates, two years after the start of the pandemic,
some departments and organizations are still having to close parts of their
operations and facilities as they cannot find enough employees to keep up with
the growing trends. Initially, in 2020, many organizations were laying off
thousands of workers to prevent companies from going bankrupt. While some firms
and managers terminated or laid off their employees through a very socially
responsible or ethical means, others were not able to be as sensitive and,
thus, are now suffering more from the shortage of experienced talent.
Consequently, this article discusses some of the employee recruitment and
retention challenges stemming from Covid-19 coronavirus and how managers and
human resources professionals have learned to adjust their management practices
to ethically and equitably lay off employees in the future, so that they can
eventually attract, recruit, hire, develop, and retain dedicated workers once
growth possibilities are available again.