The Headcount Solution : How to Cut Compensation Costs and Keep Your Best People

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Early retirement, 14, 121–122, 225

Earnings before interest expenses and taxes (EBIT), 44–46

Eastman Kodak, 170

EBIT (see Earnings before interest expenses and taxes)

Edwards, Jennifer, 116

EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), 161

E-mail, 57–59, 171

Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 120

Employee sabotage, 6, 155

Employee(s):

contracting with former, 15, 73–74, 140

and decision to stay or leave during crises, 38–40

disgruntled, 6, 12–13

furloughed, 15, 141–143, 171

getting input from, 21–22, 63, 116–117, 130

giving autonomy to, 189

investing in, 9–10

and job/skill sharing, 137–138

layoffs as viewed by, 163–166

loyalty of, 38, 182–183

making employment choices for each, 104–110

obtaining alignment between senior management and, 42–43

obtaining support of, 64

providing feedback to, 189

securing and analyzing data on individual, 93–94, 101

senior management’s criteria for retaining, 40–41

and temporary assignments, 144

Employers Association Inc., 55, 56

Employment, annual cost of, 78

Employment choices, matching people with, 104–110

Employment laws, 19–20

Entertainment budgets, 125

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 161

ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act), 120

Eskedahl, Susan, 55