Transition Manager

Transition Manager Addresses Major Risks

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Workforce transitions, such as reorganizations, reductions in force or merger integrations are difficult. The best scenario is to move through the decision, notification and separation phases efficiently and consistently with clear communications. Delays or miscommunications can quickly damage morale for the remaining employees, increase confusion, and create potential legal consequences that can be costly and have long term impact to an organization's reputation and financial health.

From the developers of OrgPlus, Transition Manager is designed to manage the end-to-end processes around ongoing or event-based workforce separations, moving them forward efficiently and consistently so the impacted group can quickly return to business-as-usual.

As a powerful web-based solution to effectively manage restructuring, downsizing, RIFs, outsourcing, off-shoring, ongoing alignments, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and voluntary separation events, Transition Manager enables organizations to:

Meet Financial Targets
  • Plan scenarios – estimate projected cost and savings
  • Accelerate and streamline processes to yield off-payroll savings
  • Leverage best practices from multiple Fortune 100 Companies
Stay in Compliance and Minimize Risk
  • Ensure consistent, defensible, data driven decisions
  • Align process with internal and regulatory policies
  • Create transparency into the process as well as into the compliance and financial information required to meet objectives
  • Reduce the potential for legal action
Identify and Retain Key People
  • Identify high-performing employees so you can implement strategic retention plans
  • Make fact based, objective decisions
  • Retain the best and most talented employees
Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Millions of dollars to fight lawsuit and/or pay damages Full audit trail provides details of criteria used in decision making. Consistent process enforced throughout organization provides legal defensibility.
WARN Act Liability for fines and 'lost' payroll if inadequate advance notice of termination Instant WARN Act Report facilitates determination of whether WARN Act applies.
Overpayments Unforeseen costs from paying too much severance, continuing on-payroll after severance, miscalculations Automated administrative processing and workflow eliminate administrative errors.
Key Talent Loss 1 to 1.5x salary to replace high performer

Ranks individuals by skills and performance to ensure that the right data is available when making decisions.

Facilitates an efficient and orderly decision making period, reducing uncertainty and increasing retentions rates.
Costly Administrative Errors By one estimate, errors cost organization just under $300 per separated employee Automation eliminates most errors, reduces administrative cost by over 50%
Adverse Impact Fines or legal action if event is deemed to be in noncompliance Reports quickly show if event inadvertently favors certain demographic group
SOX 404 Fines for noncompliance Transition Manager provides SOX-404 reports documenting internal financial controls.
Older Workers Benefit
Protection Act		 Specific language must be included in severance communications or agreement may be unenforceable, employee could file lawsuit Produces reports on what segments of decisional unit are affected by OWBPA, includes required language in communications and tracks acceptance.