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How to...know the difference between to be fired, to resign and to be made redundant

Confident Business English

CHAPTER

The Different Types of Redundancy

The HR kind of formal vocabulary would be to be made redundant. A company will make you redundant if your post is no longer viable. The second group is when it's not your choice okay you don't want to leave but it wasn't your fault for example taking the whole COVID situation a lot of businesses have gone through an extremely difficult period and they can no longer afford your job. So normally we use those rather than on an individual basis we use it on a group basis. We could also say to lose your job okay I lost my job If I tell you that I lost my jobs it's not because it was my fault it's notBecause it was my choice it's because the

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