Redundancy is an unfair concept, when we look at it. The individual, who has often played no role in the steering of the corporate ship, is being thrown out of it, for navigational decisions that they had no hand in - often, fairly unceremoniously. Thrown into the sea of unemployment at a time, where lets be honest, the waves are– both economically and geopolitically, crashing down around us.
In this moment, an individual is met with a choice that ultimately boils down to sink or swim to a new ship. Which is often easier said than done.
Even the most experienced swimmer must deal with the uncertainty of swimming to a new ship, the pressure, the direction to swim in, the ship to choose, when a ship passes them by, when a new ship rejects them, when they are exhausted and when they feel heavier and heavier in the water. It is easy to become desperate, to become increasingly overwhelmed, to panic.
So, in this metaphorical storm, we must learn better, more efficient ways of swimming. We must learn the true dir