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When Redundancy Comes Knocking: Workplace stresses

  I hate good byes. I hate having to leave. Or being left. Just like starting a new job, leaving a job is a new journey on its own. Whether it is on grounds of being declared redundant or quitting or even being sucked, termination of employment often gives people a new perspective towards life. Leaving a company that you’ve worked for, for more than ten years is as hard as it sounds. This September, a huge number of my colleagues have been laid off from their duties on grounds of redundancy. The company is in a bad place. Unlike retirement or voluntary resignation where you know prior to the date of leaving that this will come to an end, this came as a surprise to many of us. Nobody had been psychologically prepared for this. Even being sucked after committing an inadmissible mistake usually comes expected. This was a total shocker. When employment is terminated on grounds of redundancy and people have to go their separate ways and figure out a different way of making ends meet. This d