Workbook
The Layoff Survivor's Workbook
Who You Are in an Organization That Just Got Smaller
You kept your job. That is not the same as knowing why you are still there.
For the employee who still has their job after a layoff and does not know what that means anymore.
The Name It First Experience
Surviving a layoff is its own kind of disorientation — one that gets almost no attention because you still have a job. But you are navigating a workplace where the social fabric has torn, where survivors absorb the work of the people who left, and where loyalty has been revealed as a one-way contract. This workbook names those things directly. The exercises move from what happened to who you are now to what you are choosing to do with it. Not a gratitude exercise. Not a resilience framework. A structured identity audit for a moment that is genuinely complicated. The output is not a plan to feel better. It is a charter for who you are choosing to be.
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Sample questions
- What has it been like to stay in an organization that just became smaller — and what has that changed about who you are there?
- What do you now know about your relationship with this work and this organization?
- What does staying — on your own terms — actually look like from here?
Research basis
Noer layoff survivor research (Healing the Wounds — survivor syndrome, guilt, insecurity, and anger following workforce reductions) / Maslach burnout inventory applied to survivor dynamics (exhaustion and cynicism following organizational betrayal) / Schlossberg transition theory (in-transition ambiguity for those who stayed) / psychological contract theory (Rousseau — breach of implicit relational contract following layoffs) / organizational cynicism research (Dean, Brandes, Dharwadkar)
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