Understand the Impact of a Layoff—Before You Act
Reductions in force are never just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They impact of a layoff on morale, momentum, and the trust people have in your company is difficult to quantify. Yet too often, leaders make these decisions without a full understanding of the downstream effects.
That’s where the Layoff Impact Analyzer comes in. We've built this interactive tool to prompt reflection before action, helping you explore how layoffs may influence operational coverage, strategic momentum, team cohesion, and more.
❗Note: This is not a diagnostic tool. It’s a thought exercise—a way to simulate, not prescribe, workforce decisions. For in-depth scenario modeling, it's likely you'll want to use workforce planning software or consult a strategic HR advisor.
What the Analyzer Helps You Explore
- Gaps in departmental coverage and critical role dependencies
- Risks to strategic initiatives, team morale, or customer experience
- Estimated financial impact balanced against operational trade-offs
- The broader ripple effects of removing key individuals or teams
About Your Data
We do NOT store or track anything you input into the tool. Only the short opening survey is recorded to help us improve the tool and understand the broader picture of layoffs in the market. Your analysis is yours alone.
If you choose to opt in to the newsletter, you'll receive a follow up email with an array of content dedicated to the topic of layoffs, from how to conduct them to rebuilding trust afterwards.
Tips for Using the Tool
As you'll see the, the tool has some useful functions at the top right. Here's a few to be sure and take advantage of.
- Save & revisit. You can save your analysis to reload later.
- Analyzing more than 10 employees? Use our [spreadsheet template] to upload in bulk.
- Testing scenarios? Try preloaded examples or ask ChatGPT to generate fictional data using the template format.
- Dig deep. Explore the tabs for insights across financial, operational, and strategic impacts.
The Bigger Picture
More than 1,200 companies have conducted layoffs this year. Business leaders, in some cases, have rushed into them for a variety of reasons, be it economic panic or overly optimistic expectations of tech's ability to replace humans.
What we need now is to slow down and plot the future of our organizations consciously. We hope this tool will help you do that in some way.
