I believe in communicating to employees clearly and tell them the cause and effect.
For example, if there was a bomb connected to a red flashing button, don’t you think you owe it to people in the area they shouldn’t push the button otherwise a bomb will go off?
What good is it to tell them if you don’t tell them how they can help prevent the loss of their jobs?
What my boss did was explain the economics of it and point out that keeping our little shop open with the passage of NAFTA just wouldn’t make economic sense.
We were a little shop with 7 full time and 20 part time employees that primarily did overflow and emergency jobs. The company didn’t go out of business but they did close the little satellite shops because they were no longer economically viable with the passage of NAFTA.
They closed a half dozen little shops and folded them into the main HQ shop, hired a few people and pulled people off other jobs for the little jobs that we used to do.
How does one do that?